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Salary by Country
Mechanical Engineers Salary by Country
The US median for mechanical engineers is $104,110. Below, the PPP-adjusted equivalent across 13 markets, modelled from US BLS data with OECD wage ratios and live exchange rates.
Pay and AI exposure
What the mechanical engineers salary does not tell you
Salary measures what the market pays mechanical engineers today. It says nothing about how durable that pay is as AI reshapes the work. Mechanical Engineers currently sit at 30/100 on the AI exposure scale, in the low exposure band. A well-paid role can still be highly exposed: the question is which layer of the work you occupy.
The country differences below are wage-level effects, not exposure differences. AI compresses the same routine layer of mechanical engineers work in every market. To see where your own position sits and what shifts it, run the free structural reading or model the dimensions in the simulator.
13 markets
Mechanical Engineers salary across countries
Median annual pay and the typical 10th-to-90th-percentile range, shown in each market's local currency.
| Country | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| United States (source) | $104,110 | $73,990 to $164,340 |
| United Kingdom | £53,900 | £38,300 to £85,100 |
| Canada | $108,400 | $77,100 to $171,200 |
| Australia | $111,000 | $78,900 to $175,200 |
| Ireland | €71,000 | €50,400 to €112,000 |
| New Zealand | $105,100 | $74,700 to $165,900 |
| Germany | 67.400 € | 47.900 € to 106.400 € |
| France | 60 300 € | 42 900 € to 95 200 € |
| Netherlands | € 79.800 | € 56.700 to € 126.000 |
| Singapore | $108,600 | $77,200 to $171,500 |
| Japan | ￥9,844,000 | ￥6,996,100 to ￥15,539,000 |
| South Africa | R 585,000 | R 415,800 to R 923,500 |
| India | ₹17,92,300 | ₹12,73,800 to ₹28,29,100 |
US figures are BLS OEWS survey data. All other countries are PPP-adjusted estimates, derived from the US median via OECD average-wage ratios and live exchange rates. They indicate purchasing-power-style equivalents, not surveyed local salaries.
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