CAD salary guides 2025

A 2025 map of CAD pay, from drafter medians to engineer and manager wages, and how to read each survey.

CAD drafter salary 2025: the U.S. median was $68,090 in May 2025. See the range, industries, and outlook.

Mechanical drafter salary 2025: median pay was $71,550 in the United States in May 2025.

Architectural drafter salary 2025: BLS puts architectural and civil drafters at a $66,150 median.

Civil drafter salary 2025: the official U.S. median, shared with architectural drafters, was $66,150.

Electrical drafter salary 2025: the U.S. median was $76,870 in May 2025, the highest drafter group.

CAD technician salary 2025 in the United States and the United Kingdom, from the official drafter and technician surveys.

CAD designer salary 2025: the title has no official U.S. wage. These are the medians to use instead.

Mechanical designer salary 2025 sits between the $71,550 drafter median and the $104,110 engineer median.

Design engineer salary 2025: U.S. mechanical engineers had a $104,110 median in May 2025.

CAD manager salary 2025: what the $171,270 engineering manager median does and does not say.

AutoCAD salary 2025: there is no AutoCAD wage in the official tables. Here is the closest drafter pay.

SolidWorks designer salary 2025, read against U.S. mechanical drafter and engineer medians.

Revit designer salary 2025, with the architectural drafter median and the architect median beside it.

BIM coordinator salary 2025: no national wage exists for the title. Here are the occupations around it.

BIM manager salary 2025: how the role differs from a drafter and from an engineering manager.

CATIA designer salary 2025 in aerospace and automotive, anchored to official U.S. wages.

PCB designer salary 2025: electronics drafters earned a $76,870 median in the United States.

Piping designer salary 2025: the title has no official wage. Mechanical drafter pay is the anchor.

CAM programmer salary 2025: U.S. CNC tool programmers had a $68,120 median in May 2025.

Entry level CAD salary 2025: the bottom tenth of U.S. drafters earned under $46,700.

CAD drafter vs designer salary 2025: the drafter median is $68,090, and designer is a different title.

US CAD salary 2025: drafter, technician, engineer, and manager medians from the May 2025 survey.

UK CAD salary 2025: full time CAD technicians had a £35,221 median in the April 2025 survey.

Canada CAD salary 2025: the national median wage for drafting technologists was $31.79 an hour.

Australia CAD salary 2025: mechanical draftspersons had a much higher weekly median than civil.