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Applications Engineer Salary

Also referred to as:

  • Customizing Engineer

Full-time gross salary

Based on 156 salaries

Ø 54.500 €

Average salary

41.800 €76.100 €

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What is the salary for a Applications Engineer in Germany? On average, you can earn 54.500 € gross annually, based on 156 collected salary information from kununu users. This equals approximately 4.542 € per month (assuming 12 monthly payments). Salaries typically range between 41.800 € and 76.100 € annually. Your actual income as a Applications Engineer will depend on your industry, work experience, and location.

Applications Engineer Salary according to work experience

The starting salary as a Applications Engineer with less than 3 years of professional experience is on average 50.000 € gross per year.

After 10 years of professional experience, Applications Engineer professionals earn on average 50.000 € gross per year.

People Management and Salary

Histogram managerial responsibilities
  • without managerial responsibility
  • with managerial responsibility
  • At the start of your career as a Applications Engineer (with less than 3 years of work experience), you can expect an average salary of around 50.000 € gross per year without managerial responsibilities, and 60.100 € with managerial responsibilities.


    After 10 years of work experience, your salary increases: An experienced Applications Engineer without managerial responsibility earns an average of 69.400 €. With managerial responsibility, it is around 70.000 € gross per year.

    Jobs for Applications Engineer

  • Senior Engineer Customer Applications

    Infineon Technologies Austria AGvor 3 Tagen
    Villach
    Full-time

    Application Engineer II

    AVL List GmbHvor 3 Tagen
    Plymouth
    Full-time

    Engineer Applications

    Infineon Technologies Austria AGvor 4 Tagen
    Villach
    Full-time

    Intern_System Application Engineer_4670

    Infineon Technologies Austria AGvor 4 Tagen
    Villach
    Internship
  • Staff Engineer Applications

    Infineon Technologies Austria AGvor 4 Tagen
    Villach
    Full-time

    Staff Application Engineer

    Infineon Technologies Austria AGvor 4 Tagen
    Villach
    Full-time

    Staff Engineer Applications

    Infineon Technologies Austria AGvor 4 Tagen
    Villach
    Full-time

    Senior Staff Applications Engineer

    Infineon Technologies Austria AGvor 4 Tagen
    Villach
    Full-time
  • Possible jobs for your next career step

    The next career step as a Applications Engineer with the highest salary is the position of Produktmanager:in, with an average annual gross salary of 64.000 €. According to kununu statistics, when a Applications Engineer changes careers, most of them 21.5% choose the position of Software Engineer. The job with the most open positions, into which a Applications Engineer frequently transitions, is the role of IT-Supporter. Currently, there are 5.061 open positions in this field.

    FAQ

    • • The average annual salary as a Applications Engineer is 54.500 € gross.
      • With 12 salaries, this corresponds to a monthly gross salary of 4.542 €.
      • As a Applications Engineer, you can earn on average a minimum of 41.800 € and a maximum of 76.100 € per year.
      • The majority of the salary data range between 48.660 € and 55.520 € gross per year.
    • The net salary as a Applications Engineer in Germany depends on various factors, including

      Tax class
      •State
      • Social security contributions and
      • personal circumstances.
      On average, about 35-40% is deducted from the gross salary. This means that with a gross salary of 4.542 € per month, the net salary as Applications Engineer is approximately between 2.725 € and 2.952 €.
      For an accurate calculation that takes into account your individual factors, we recommend using the kununu gross-to-net calculator.
    • According to our kununu salary data, as a Applications Engineer with less than three years of experience, you can expect an average starting salary of 50.000 € gross per year. This corresponds to a monthly salary of 3.571 € (based on 12 monthly payments).
    • According to our kununu salary data, as a Applications Engineer with 10 years of experience, you can expect an average salary of 69.400 € gross per year – this corresponds to approximately 4.957 € gross per month (based on 12 monthly payments).
    • If you take on managerial responsibilities as a Applications Engineer in Germany, your salary increases on average by 8%. This means an average annual salary of 64.700 € gross, while colleagues without managerial responsibilities earn an average of 59.925 € gross.
      Holding a leading position comes with significant benefits from the added responsibility.
    • Yes, currently you can find on kununu 16 open positions as a Applications Engineer in Germany.
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