Electrical Engineer Salary in Georgia 2026,
$120,630 Median | BLS Data by City

BLS does not release a Georgia wage estimate for electrical engineers in the OEWS May 2025 data, so there is no published Georgia median. The national median is $120,630 a year, $58.00 an hour, with a national range from $76,550 at the 10th percentile to $184,300 at the 90th. Georgia employment for the occupation is published at 5,950.

Savannah pays the most among the Georgia metros BLS does publish, at $121,240, followed by Albany at $115,210, Macon-Bibb County at $115,030, Warner Robins at $108,250 and Augusta-Richmond County at $104,700. Atlanta is not among the metros with a published wage figure for this occupation in this release.

BLS suppresses a wage cell when the underlying sample does not meet its publication and confidentiality standards, which can happen when too few establishments respond or when one employer would be identifiable from the result. Employment can still be published when the wage is not, which is exactly what has happened here. It is a data-availability decision, not a statement about Georgia wages.

Not to work in industry. Most electrical engineers practise under the industrial exemption without any licence. The Georgia State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors licenses professional engineers, and PE licensure is required to sign and seal engineering documents for public projects — which matters for consulting, utility and infrastructure work but not for most manufacturing or product roles.

Louisiana reports $123,710, Colorado $120,760, Virginia $119,030, New York $119,010 and Missouri $118,670. Those are the published state medians closest to the national figure, and they suggest that a Georgia figure, had BLS released one, would most likely have sat in the same broad band rather than far from it.

Use the Georgia metro rows as the Georgia-specific evidence and the national distribution as the shape of the occupation. Savannah at $121,240 and Augusta-Richmond County at $104,700 are real Georgia observations, and the gap between them is a genuine within-state difference. What you cannot do responsibly is state a Georgia median, because BLS has not published one.

They follow the work. Savannah's port, logistics and industrial base supports higher-paid controls and power engineering; Warner Robins and Augusta-Richmond County are shaped by military and federal installations where pay follows federal or contractor scales; Albany and Macon-Bibb County reflect manufacturing and utility work. Atlanta's absence from the published set means the state's largest engineering market is not represented in these rows at all.

Not necessarily. OEWS suppression decisions are made release by release on the basis of that year's sample, so a state cell that is suppressed in one vintage is often published in the next. This page will be updated when BLS releases a Georgia figure for the occupation; until then it deliberately reports the national number as national.