California State Controller's Office · 2025 pay · 18 people
How much does a senior associate engineer make in California State Controller's Office?
$161,833typical pay for a senior associate engineer in 2025
$149,950 – $171,108what most people earned
Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year workers. Typical pay rose 11.0% from 2024.
✓ Official data from California State Controller's Office · Matches the agency's latest release · sco.ca.gov ↗✓ Official data from California State Controller's Office · Matches the agency's latest release · sco.ca.gov ↗
Where senior associate engineers work
Typical pay at each employer, 2025 (everyone paid).
Related jobs and the next step up
Same line of work at a different rank, by typical pay (full-year employees where we can tell).
- Engineer Intern$11,387 (everyone)
- Engineer Assistant$104,905 (everyone)
- Chief Engineer$110,751 (everyone)
- Assistant Engineer$112,280 (everyone)
- Associate Engineer$145,254 (everyone)
- Engineer Associate$148,358 (everyone)
- Senior Associate Engineer (this page)$161,833 (everyone)
- Engineer Principal$162,241 (everyone)
- Supervising Engineer$166,258 (everyone)
- Senior Engineer$171,470 (everyone)
- Engineer Senior$175,722 (everyone)
- Assistant Chief Engineer$192,111 (everyone)
- Principal Engineer$197,143 (everyone)
Highest-paid senior associate engineers, 2025
Common questions
How much does a senior associate engineer make in California State Controller's Office?
The typical senior associate engineer was paid $161,833 in 2025; most earned between $149,950 and $171,108. This counts all 18 people paid, including part-year workers.
How much of the pay is overtime?
Overtime made up 0.1% of all pay for senior associate engineers in 2025.
Which job titles are included?
Everyone whose payroll title is Senior Associate Engineer, at any level (for example "Senior Associate Engineer"). Part-time-schedule titles (such as "20 hours") are left out. Senior, supervising and trainee titles have their own pages.
Job titles are written out in full from the payroll's abbreviations (for example "SR CRRECTNL POLC OFCR" → "Senior Correctional Police Officer"). "Typical pay" is the median; "most earned" is the middle half. How we calculate this