Civil Engineer Salary in Wisconsin (2026)

Worth knowing: The Foxconn Mount Pleasant Wisconn Valley campus is one of the most significant US large-scale industrial construction projects of the past decade and a feature most national civil engineering surveys understate for WI. The 2017-2018 Foxconn agreement (initially announced as a $10B+ LCD manufacturing campus with up to 13,000 jobs, subsequently substantially reduced in 2021 to ~$672M data center + server manufacturing investment with ~1,400 jobs after multiple plan revisions) supports ongoing site civil + transportation + utility infrastructure work in Mount Pleasant + Racine County — WisDOT extended Highway 11 + reconfigured I-94 interchange to support the campus. The Milwaukee Marquette Interchange ($810M reconstruction completed 2008) + Zoo Interchange ($1.7B reconstruction completed 2018) represent the largest US Midwest urban-interchange reconstructions in the past two decades. The Milwaukee Streetcar (The Hop, opened 2018) is the region's first modern light rail. JP Cullen Janesville (~$1B+ revenue, the largest WI-based commercial contractor) + Boldt Construction Appleton (~$1B revenue, family-owned construction) + Kraus-Anderson WI operations anchor WI commercial construction. Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) is among the country's most respected undergraduate engineering schools. WI's 7.65% top bracket catches senior PE + construction manager comp at $200K+ TC but is substantially lower than MN's 9.85% top.