New Jersey · 2025 pay · 888 people
How much are engineers, architects and drafters paid in New Jersey?
$87,132typical pay for engineers, architects and drafters, 2025
$70,320 – $108,560what most people earned
Counts everyone paid during the year, including part-year workers, in the 12 jobs listed below (part-time-schedule titles left out).
✓ Official data from NJ Office of Management and Budget · Matches the agency's latest release · nj.gov ↗
Pay by job
Typical pay counts everyone paid during each job's latest year.
- Environmental Engineer206 people$84,157
- Senior Engineer Transportation139 people$91,976
- Principal Engineer Transportation120 people$109,344
- Assistant Engineer Transportation117 people$72,983
- Engineer Trainee Transportation104 people$28,031
- Engineering Technician72 people$73,036
- Supervising Engineer Construction and Maintenance32 people$143,925
- Project Engineer Construction28 people$127,692
- Project Engineer Surface Design24 people$124,434
- Senior Engineer Traffic24 people$94,078
- Project Engineer17 people$150,638
- Assistant Engineer Traffic5 people$76,874
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Other job groups in New Jersey
- Social work and counseling10,913 people$84,981
- Office and administrative support10,410 people$59,022
- Police, fire and security9,454 people$106,775
- Business and finance jobs6,121 people$89,899
- Legal jobs3,657 people$96,077
- Managers2,885 people$136,766
- Maintenance and repair2,659 people$80,125
- Drivers and transportation2,589 people$99,644
- Healthcare support2,491 people$62,589
- Computer and IT jobs2,160 people$92,470
- Science jobs2,014 people$84,393
- Construction and trades1,716 people$74,448
- Doctors, nurses and health professionals1,667 people$96,471
- Sales and cashiers966 people$26,319
- Food service885 people$52,668
- Teachers and librarians714 people$87,304
- Cleaning and grounds421 people$62,707
Jobs are grouped by the federal Standard Occupational Classification (SOC 2018) major groups. This page: Architecture and Engineering Occupations (SOC 17-0000). Job titles we could not place with confidence are left out. "Typical pay" is the median; "most earned" is the middle half. How we calculate this