ENGINEER / SALARY
SRI LANKA

SALARY SURVEYS

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324.98 LKR = 1 USD

3,322,905 LKR

$10,225 USD

Colombo

3,054,797 LKR

2,274,849 LKR

$7,000 USD

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Average Salary / Engineer / Sri Lanka

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Average salary for Engineer / Sri Lanka is 3,322,905 LKR per year. The most typical earning is 2,274,849 LKR. All data are based on 37 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of 3,477,269 LKR. Women receive a salary of 1,169,922 LKR.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Masters Degree with salary of 4,224,720 LKR. The second most paid education level is Bachelors Degree with salary of 3,119,793 LKR.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 16-20 Years of experience receive salary of 9,001,904 LKR. Employees with 20+ Years of experience receive 5,167,157 LKR.

Levels / Engineer / Sri Lanka (Gross LKR)

Salary Levels (LKR) per Year	Surveys	[%]
325,000 LKR - 649,599 LKR	0	n/a
650,000 LKR - 974,599 LKR	1	100% 2.7%
974,900 LKR - 1,624,599 LKR	6	97.3% 16.22%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
1,624,900 LKR - 3,249,499 LKR	15	81.08% 40.54%
3,249,800 LKR - 4,874,399 LKR	8	40.54% 21.62%
4,874,700 LKR - 6,499,199 LKR	5	18.92% 13.51%
6,499,600 LKR - 8,124,099 LKR	1	5.41% 2.7%
8,124,500 LKR - 9,748,999 LKR	0	n/a
9,749,400 LKR - 11,373,899 LKR	0	n/a
11,374,200 LKR - 12,998,799 LKR	0	n/a
12,999,100 LKR - 14,623,699 LKR	0	n/a
14,624,000 LKR - 16,248,599 LKR	1	2.7% 2.7%
16,248,900 LKR - 17,873,499 LKR	0	n/a
17,873,800 LKR - 19,498,399 LKR	0	n/a
19,498,700 LKR - 21,123,299 LKR	0	n/a
21,123,600 LKR - 22,748,199 LKR	0	n/a
22,748,500 LKR - 24,373,099 LKR	0	n/a
24,373,400 LKR - 25,997,999 LKR	0	n/a
25,998,300 LKR - 27,622,799 LKR	0	n/a
27,623,200 LKR - 29,247,699 LKR	0	n/a
29,248,100 LKR - 30,872,599 LKR	0	n/a
30,873,000 LKR - 32,497,499 LKR	0	n/a
32,497,800 LKR - 34,122,399 LKR	0	n/a
34,122,700 LKR - 35,747,299 LKR	0	n/a
35,747,600 LKR - 37,372,199 LKR	0	n/a
37,372,500 LKR - 38,997,099 LKR	0	n/a
38,997,400 LKR - 40,621,999 LKR	0	n/a
40,622,300 LKR - 42,246,899 LKR	0	n/a
42,247,200 LKR - 43,871,799 LKR	0	n/a
43,872,100 LKR - 45,496,699 LKR	0	n/a
45,497,000 LKR - 47,121,599 LKR	0	n/a
47,121,900 LKR - 48,746,399 LKR	0	n/a
HIGH SALARIES
48,746,800 LKR - 51,996,199 LKR	0	n/a
51,996,600 LKR - 55,245,999 LKR	0	n/a
55,246,300 LKR - 58,495,799 LKR	0	n/a
58,496,100 LKR - 61,745,599 LKR	0	n/a
61,745,900 LKR - 64,995,399 LKR	0	n/a
64,995,700 LKR - 68,245,199 LKR	0	n/a
68,245,500 LKR - 71,494,899 LKR	0	n/a
71,495,300 LKR - 74,744,699 LKR	0	n/a
74,745,100 LKR - 77,994,499 LKR	0	n/a
77,994,800 LKR - 81,244,299 LKR	0	n/a
81,244,600 LKR - 113,742,499 LKR	0	n/a

Gender / Engineer / Sri Lanka (Gross LKR)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	34	3,477,269 LKR
2	Women	1	1,169,922 LKR

Education / Engineer / Sri Lanka (Gross LKR)

#		Surveys
1	Masters Degree	7	4,224,720 LKR
2	Bachelors Degree	28	3,119,793 LKR
3	Some College	2	2,989,802 LKR

Experience / Engineer / Sri Lanka (Gross LKR)

#		Surveys
1	16-20 Years	2	9,001,904 LKR
2	20+ Years	1	5,167,157 LKR
3	12-16 Years	2	4,322,213 LKR
4	8-12 Years	5	4,257,218 LKR
5	2-4 Years	9	3,217,287 LKR
6	4-8 Years	8	3,022,299 LKR
7	1-2 Years	5	2,047,364 LKR
8	0-1 Year	5	1,299,913 LKR

Age / Engineer / Sri Lanka (Gross LKR)

#		Surveys
1	41-45	2	9,001,904 LKR
2	36-40	2	6,759,552 LKR
3	51-55	1	5,167,157 LKR
4	26-30	16	3,314,780 LKR
5	31-35	6	2,827,312 LKR
6	n/a	2	1,722,385 LKR
7	21-25	8	1,592,394 LKR

Work Type / Engineer / Sri Lanka (Gross LKR)

#		Surveys
1	Self Employed	1	15,436,478 LKR
2	Contract	13	3,704,754 LKR
3	Permanent	22	2,599,827 LKR
4	Part Time	1	1,884,875 LKR

Cities / Engineer / Sri Lanka (Gross LKR)

#		Surveys
1	Negombo	1	6,304,582 LKR
2	--Other--	5	4,257,218 LKR
3	Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia	1	3,672,256 LKR
4	Colombo	30	3,054,797 LKR

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Geologist

Posted 09 July 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Geological Mapping."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
--Other--	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	Advanced	7,224,300 LKR

Bim Manager

Posted 22 December 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Building Information Modeling."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	2,836,700 LKR

Civil Engineer

Posted 15 November 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Construction supervision
Construction management 
Designing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	1,762,000 LKR

Assistant Director

Posted 23 September 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Electricity Regulations."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	3,331,000 LKR

Junior R&d Engineer

Posted 04 October 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Responsible for doing research and development based projects."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	987,900 LKR

Electrical Engineer

Posted 24 September 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"I'm Front-end Developer for implementing visual elements that users see and interact within a renewable energy suppler. In general, supported by back-end energy suppler and currently work at aftersales solar engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	1,975,900 LKR

Quantity Surveyor

Posted 02 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing Quantity surveying."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	3,293,300 LKR

Civil Engineer

Posted 17 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Drawing coorination."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	1,690,500 LKR

Civil Engineering

Posted 05 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Construction or project manager."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	3,686,900 LKR

Assistant Manager Osh

Posted 08 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Management of occupational health and safety matters."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	3,659,300 LKR

Service Engineer

Posted 14 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Comissioning, Preventive Maintenance, Troubleshooting Medical Analyzers."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	2,799,400 LKR

Electronics

Posted 26 March 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Electronic engineering."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	1,427,000 LKR

Land Surveyor

Posted 27 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"I'm a graduated surveyor passed out from Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka and I have 2 years post qualifying experience in the building, road, irrigation, and bridges."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	3,110,400 LKR

Software Engineer

Posted 21 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software Engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	3,293,300 LKR

Assistant Electrical Engineer

Posted 27 December 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Maintenance of machineries and power section of the plant."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
--Other--	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	1,502,400 LKR

Assistant Engineer

Posted 02 December 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Assistant engineer for civil work."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Some College	4-8 Years	n/a	1,765,000 LKR

Structural Engineer

Posted 21 August 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Site supervision."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Negombo	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	6,303,900 LKR

Electrical Engineer

Posted 14 June 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Electrical Engineering."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	5,673,500 LKR

Structural Engineer

Posted 06 June 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Structural Designing of buildings, preparing bills."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	840,400 LKR

Product Development Engineer

Posted 24 May 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Developement to the specific products in the company."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	1,891,000 LKR

Furnace Operator

Posted 14 April 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Operating Furnace."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
--Other--	Some College	8-12 Years	n/a	4,216,900 LKR

Civil Engineer

Posted 21 November 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"I have more than five years experience in construction field as a Civil Engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	5,182,400 LKR

Project Eng

Posted 28 September 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project Engineer in Building construction field."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	3,757,100 LKR

Civil Engineer

Posted 19 July 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Water supply maintenance & water supply project."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	3,109,400 LKR

Civil Engineer

Posted 19 July 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Water supply operation and maintenance works, Construction of water projects."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Masters Degree	20+ Years	n/a	5,182,400 LKR

Project Engineer

Posted 05 July 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project engineer, project cordinator."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Colombo	Bachelors Degree	16-20 Years	n/a	2,591,100 LKR

ENGINEER / SALARY SRI LANKA

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3,322,905 LKR

3,054,797 LKR

2,274,849 LKR

Average Salary / Engineer / Sri Lanka

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Age / Engineer / Sri Lanka (Gross LKR)

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People's individual salary examples (surveys)

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