Talent Maps / Austin

Austin Engineering Talent Maps (2026)

Pay, employers, submarkets and hiring advice for engineers in metro Austin, one discipline at a time.

Austin is one of the fastest-growing engineering markets in the US. Chip fabs in Austin and Taylor, Tesla’s Giga Texas, a growing group of space, defense and robotics companies, and major highway, airport and rail projects are all hiring engineers at once. Each map below covers what engineers in one discipline earn, who employs them, where in the metro they work and what is competing for them. See our Austin engineering recruiters.

53,796People added to metro Austin in one year, the sixth most of any US metroCensus Bureau, 2025
$145,360Median electrical engineer pay in metro AustinBLS, May 2025
0.14%Austin colocation data center vacancyAvison Young, Q1 2026

Austin talent maps by discipline

Data center engineers

0.14%colocation vacancy, the lowest of the top 12 North American markets

Pay by role, the Round Rock, Hutto, Bastrop and Caldwell campuses and the power rules.

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Electrical engineers

$145,360median pay in metro Austin

Austin Energy, the co-ops, LCRA and chip companies competing for power and hardware engineers.

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Mechanical engineers

$106,690median pay in metro Austin

Samsung’s Taylor fab, Giga Texas, robotics and space companies.

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Civil engineers

$100,470median pay in metro Austin

Design firms, submarkets and the I-35, airport and light rail projects.

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Structural engineers

$128,890the 75th percentile, where licensed structural engineers usually sit

Posted pay, structural firms, licensing and the medical, convention center and airport projects.

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Controls engineers

$165,000top of the posted range for a robotics and automation engineer

Chip fabs, Emerson, Apptronik and Tesla, with real posted pay ranges.

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Aerospace engineers

$123,210median pay in metro Austin

Firefly, SpaceX Bastrop, Saronic, BAE Systems and ARL:UT.

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Industrial and manufacturing engineers

$103,610median industrial engineer pay in metro Austin

Chip fabs, their suppliers and Tesla drive demand for manufacturing engineers.

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Architects

$96,600median pay in metro Austin

Austin firms and studios, plus the convention center, medical and airport projects.

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CAD designers and drafters

$84,680median pay for electrical drafters in Austin

CAD pay by specialty, real posted pay ranges, the software in demand and ACC training.

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