Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers offer sit among all 22,170 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 22,170 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 3,520 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 31.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Arizona, whose location quotient of 2.21 says this work is 2.21 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $43,330 at the 25th percentile, $50,620 at the middle, $63,250 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $45,840, a ratio of 2.3 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 45 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is New Jersey at $65,640; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers stands number 539 by employment and number 510 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations, the group median wage is $59,300 across 51 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 15% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 19 of the 45 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $50,620, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 1,230 jobs, 5.5% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $46,980 a year, against $79,600 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers paycheck, gross, is $1,947 every two weeks on an annual $50,620, which is $4,218 a month and $973 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($43,330) to the 75th ($63,250) is worth $19,920 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $55,682 would sit between the median ($50,620) and the 75th percentile ($63,250), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $43,330, is $7,290 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Sibling occupations in Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations: Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers, Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers, Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, Medical Equipment Repairers, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.