Tac Engineer Salary in the United States

How much does a Tac Engineer make in the United States?

As of April 01, 2026, the average salary for a Tac Engineer in the United States is $92,454 per year, which breaks down to an hourly rate of $44.

However, a Tac Engineer's salary can vary significantly. Here’s a look at the typical salary range:

  • Top Earners (90th percentile): $130,634
  • Majority Range (25th-75th percentile): $74,380 to $112,439
  • Entry-Level (10th percentile): $57,925
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Tac Engineer Salaries by Percentile

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Wage
75th Percentile $112,439 $9,370 $2,162 $54
Average $92,454 $7,705 $1,778 $44
25th Percentile $74,380 $6,198 $1,430 $36
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Key Factors That Influence Tac Engineer Salaries

A Tac Engineer's salary isn't a fixed number. It's shaped by several important factors. Below, we'll explore how geographic location and company size can directly affect your earning potential.

Top Paying Cities for Tac Engineers

Salaries can also vary between different cities. Major metropolitan areas or cities with a high demand for technicians often offer more competitive pay. Here are a few examples of average annual salaries in different U.S. cities:

  • San Jose: $116,612
  • San Francisco: $115,466
  • Oakland: $112,905

What Skills Can Increase a Tac Engineer's Salary?

Demanded Skills for the Role:

  • Customer Service (Mentioned in 2.44% Job Postings): Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase. The perception of success of such interactions is dependent on employees "who can adjust themselves to the personality of the guest". Customer service concerns the priority an organization assigns to customer service relative to components such as product innovation and pricing. In this sense, an organization that values good customer service may spend more money in training employees than the average organization or may proactively interview customers for feedback. From the point of view of an overall sales process engineering effort, customer service plays an important role in an organization's ability to generate income and revenue. From that perspective, customer service should be included as part of an overall approach to systematic improvement. One good customer service experience can change the entire perception a customer holds towards the organization.
  • Long Term Care (Mentioned in 4.56% Job Postings): Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long term care is focused on individualized and coordinated services that promote independence, maximize patients' quality of life, and meet patients' needs over a period of time. It is common for long-term care to provide custodial and non-skilled care, such as assisting with normal daily tasks like dressing, feeding, using the bathroom. Increasingly, long-term care involves providing a level of medical care that requires the expertise of skilled practitioners to address the multiple chronic conditions associated with older populations. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living facilities or in nursing homes. Long-term care may be needed by people of any age, although it is a more common need for senior citizens.
  • Acute Care (Mentioned in 1.47% Job Postings): Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. In medical terms, care for acute health conditions is the opposite from chronic care, or longer term care. Acute care services are generally delivered by teams of health care professionals from a range of medical and surgical specialties. Acute care may require a stay in a hospital emergency department, ambulatory surgery center, urgent care centre or other short-term stay facility, along with the assistance of diagnostic services, surgery, or follow-up outpatient care in the community. Hospital-based acute inpatient care typically has the goal of discharging patients as soon as they are deemed healthy and stable. Acute care settings include emergency department, intensive care, coronary care, cardiology, neonatal intensive care, and many general areas where the patient could become acutely unwell and require stabilization and transfer to another higher dependency unit for further treatment.
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Customer Service 2.44%
Long Term Care 4.56%
Acute Care 1.47%

Tac Engineer Salary: Hourly Rate, Weekly Pay, and Monthly Pay

Understanding how a Tac Engineer's annual salary breaks down can help with budgeting. Below, you can see the average hourly rate, weekly pay, and monthly pay for this role. Use the buttons to switch between different pay periods.

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$74,380
Average $92,454/year
$112,439
$6,198
Average $7,705/month
$9,370
$1,430
Average $1,778/week
$2,162
$36
Average $44/hour
$54
Annual Salary Monthly Pay Weekly Pay Hourly Wage
75th Percentile $112,439 $9,370 $2,162 $54
Average $92,454 $7,705 $1,778 $44
25th Percentile $74,380 $6,198 $1,430 $36

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