Bicycle 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 ($30,640) to the 90th ($52,130). 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

May 2024 employment stood at 12,590, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 2,240 jobs; the top three states sum to 28.6% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: North Dakota posts a location quotient of 4.16, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $52,130, which is 1.7 times the $30,640 at the 10th, a difference of $21,490 annually. Because the mean wage ($41,550) sits above the median ($40,360), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Bicycle Repairers runs from the $50,910 median in New York down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (2,240 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Bicycle Repairers stands number 649 by employment and number 700 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 32% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 15 of the 42 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $40,360, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 700 jobs, 5.6% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $46,000 a year, against $49,810 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Bicycle Repairers paycheck, gross, is $1,552 every two weeks on an annual $40,360, which is $3,363 a month and $776 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($35,880) to the 75th ($47,560) is worth $11,680 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 $44,396 would sit between the median ($40,360) and the 75th percentile ($47,560), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $35,880, is $4,480 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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