How much money does an electronics engineer make?

The average annual salary for an electronics engineer is just over $93,000, as of 2013. Electronics engineers are highly trained professionals that work in a number of industries ranging from semiconductor manufacturing to oil and gas extraction.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were almost 170,000 electrical engineers in the workplace as of 2013 with an average wage increase of 0.5 percent over the previous year. Hourly mean wages ranged from just under $40 for engineers working in the electrical equipment manufacturing sector to as high as $57.37 for those that were employed within the software publishing industry.