Avionics Technicians 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 ($49,770) to the 90th ($113,580). 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 20,900 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. Washington is the largest employer at 5,480 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 45.2% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Washington, whose location quotient of 11.41 says this work is 11.41 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $113,580, which is 2.3 times the $49,770 at the 10th, a difference of $63,810 annually. Because the mean wage ($82,350) sits above the median ($81,390), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 41 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Washington at $107,640; the jobs leader is Washington:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Avionics Technicians stands number 551 by employment and number 199 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 37% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 15 of the 41 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $81,390, 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

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is the largest metro employer with 4,870 jobs, 23.3% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 70 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $77,540 a year, against $96,270 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Avionics Technicians paycheck, gross, is $3,130 every two weeks on an annual $81,390, which is $6,782 a month and $1,565 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($65,170) to the 75th ($98,990) is worth $33,820 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 $89,529 would sit between the median ($81,390) and the 75th percentile ($98,990), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $65,170, is $16,220 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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