Sales Engineer

Salary band

Base salary, gross annual

25th percentile

€58,000

Median

€70,000

75th percentile

€88,000

For reference: the statutory minimum wage in Germany has stood at €13.90 gross per hour since January 1, 2026 — roughly €2,410 gross a month for a full-time role at 40 hours/week. (BMAS: Mindestlohn steigt zum 1. Januar 2026 auf 13,90 Euro)

Variable at OTE€15,000 – €22,000

Gross fixed salary per year for a mid-level Sales Engineer (4 to 8 years, of which at least 2 in pre-sales or technical consulting) at a German B2B SaaS SMB. SaaS scale-up profiles in Berlin or Munich trend toward the top of the range (80-95 k€ fixed); classic Mittelstand sales-engineering profiles (industrial software, ERP, cybersecurity) often sit between 58-75 k€. The variable component (typically 80/20 rather than the 70/30 of pure Account Executives) is often tied to Account Executive quotas or to shared team targets. Note: the Sales Engineer title is established in the DACH region; many Mittelstand companies advertise the same role as Pre-Sales Consultant, Solutions Engineer or Technischer Vertrieb.

Sources: Stepstone Gehaltsdaten Sales Engineer Deutschland 2026; Stepstone Gehaltsreport 2026; Destatis Verdiensterhebung (April 2025), Berufsgruppe 61 Einkaufs-, Vertriebs- und Handelsberufe; kununu Gehaltscheck Sales Engineer 2025