Engineering Firm Data in 2025: 102,344 Offices of Project Records
BLS counts 102,344 U.S. engineering offices in 2025 with average pay of $128,450. Here's what the numbers mean for engineering firm business data.
Short answer: The U.S. had 102,344 engineering services offices in 2025, up 2.6%, employing 1,202,400 people at an average annual pay of $128,450. Years of project, estimating and scheduling records at that scale can make engineering firm business data valuable.
What the 2025 numbers say
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts nearly every employer in the country through unemployment-insurance filings. Its 2025 annual averages show 102,344 engineering services locations, up 2.6% from 2024, with employment up 2.7% to 1,202,400. Average annual pay was $128,450, among the highest of any category we track.
That is about 11.7 employees per location. Engineering is a project business, so every one of those teams generates proposals, estimates, schedules, change orders and deliverables on a steady cycle.
Every state, its pay and its one-year change are in our engineering firm data atlas.
Where engineering work is concentrated
Texas has 135,878 engineering jobs at 8,068 locations and California has 130,311 jobs at 9,873 locations. Florida has 78,432 jobs at 7,587 locations, Virginia 54,530 at 3,564 and Michigan 53,912 at 2,729.
Among states with at least 500 jobs, the fastest one-year growth was Rhode Island at +18.7%, then Connecticut at +15.1% and West Virginia at +13.3%. Those are public federal figures, not forecasts.
See neighboring categories in the architecture firm atlas and the surveying and mapping atlas.
Why project history is the asset
Data buyers look at three things first: depth, size and freshness. Depth is how many years of history you have. Size is how many records sit in your systems. Freshness is whether new records keep arriving.
An engineering firm that has run its projects through the same project management, estimating and time-tracking tools for years holds a record of how work was scoped, how long tasks took and how schedules changed. That is information the public internet does not have.
Because firms run many projects at once, new records arrive constantly, which supports the freshness a repeatable data license depends on.
What kinds of engineering firm records can be valuable
Every firm is different, and nothing here is an eligibility list. Examples of business records that can interest buyers, shared only in totals and patterns:
- Estimating and bid history: scope categories, hours and cost patterns in aggregate.
- Project schedules: planned versus actual durations by project type.
- Change-order patterns: what changed and how often.
- Resource and utilization data: staffing across projects over time.
Client confidential drawings, personal employee information and anything covered by a client NDA are never requested or licensed. Builder Data works with business data only.
How to find out what yours is worth
Start with the basics: how long you've been operating, how many people you employ, which project and estimating software you run and how far back the records go. Firms with roughly 20 or more staff that have used the same tools for two or more years usually have the most to work with today.
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