Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($35,080) to the 90th ($67,480). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 18,940 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 2,340 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 33.6% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Montana, whose location quotient of 2.28 says this work is 2.28 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $67,480, which is 1.9 times the $35,080 at the 10th, a difference of $32,400 annually. Because the mean wage ($49,580) sits above the median ($47,260), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 2,340 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Connecticut would lead at $62,480. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers stands number 573 by employment and number 588 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 20% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 26 of the 46 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $47,260, 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

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is the largest metro employer with 510 jobs, 2.7% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

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, $47,020 a year, against $47,020 in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $47,260 a year is $3,938 a month gross, $1,818 every two weeks, $909 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,990) to the 75th ($58,160) is worth $18,170 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,938 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $51,986 would sit between the median ($47,260) and the 75th percentile ($58,160), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,990, is $7,270 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Industrial Machinery Mechanics, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists, Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other, Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines, Automotive Body and Related Repairers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.