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Engineering | Electrical Engineer (General)

Electrical Engineer (General)

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

An Electrical Engineer designs, develops, and tests products and systems that use or produce electricity, including power generators, electric motors, radar and navigation systems, and communication systems. Works on larger electrical systems rather than small electronic products or devices.

Job Outlook

There were 1438 Electrical Engineer (General) job postings in North Carolina in the past year and in the United States.

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Salary

Many new Electrical Engineer (General) jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.

National

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State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $104,186.

Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Electrical Engineer (General) postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $0.

Common Employers

Here are the employers that have posted the most Electrical Engineer (General) jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.

North Carolina

  • Actalent (130)
  • Jobot (53)
  • GPAC (40)
  • Sargent & Lundy (38)
  • Duke Energy (33)
  • Jacobs Solutions (30)
  • Black & Veatch (29)
  • Siemens (26)
  • Insight Global (22)
  • Burns & McDonnell (22)

NC State Programs Relevant to this Career

If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!

All wages, job posting statistics, employment trend projections, and information about skill desirability on this page represents historical data and does not guarantee future conditions. Data is provided by and downloaded regularly from Lightcast. For more information about how Lightcast gathers data and what it represents, see Lightcast Data: Basic Overview on Lightcast's Knowledge Base website.