Building Engineer Salary & Pay Data
BLS OEWS May 2025 · Closest available occupation: SOC 51-8021 Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
Closest available: BLS has no building-engineer occupation, so this is stationary engineers and boiler operators in every industry.
Annual figures are BLS hourly wages × 2,080 hours. OEWS covers wage-and-salary workers only, so it leaves out the self-employed (including owners of management firms), workers in private households, overtime pay and most bonuses.
What the BLS figure covers
These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 51-8021 Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators, the closest available occupation, shown only as a benchmark.
BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for building engineers, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.