Calibration Technologists and Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Calibration Technologists and Technicians ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $52,250. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 15,320 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 3,680 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 38.2% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in New Hampshire, whose location quotient of 3.22 says this work is 3.22 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $44,730 or less, and one in ten earns $105,440 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.4 to 1 and the annual gap is $60,710. The mean ($71,080) versus median ($65,040) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 3,680 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, New Jersey would lead at $94,650. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Calibration Technologists and Technicians stands number 605 by employment and number 330 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Architecture and Engineering Occupations, the group median wage is $96,690 across 36 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 33% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.6% of the group's 2,567,220 jobs. In 13 of the 38 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $65,040, 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 1,260 jobs, 8.2% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 73 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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $69,910 a year, against $81,330 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $5,420 a month before tax, $2,502 biweekly, $1,251 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($52,250) to the 75th ($83,600) is worth $31,350 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $71,544 would sit between the median ($65,040) and the 75th percentile ($83,600), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $52,250, is $12,790 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Architecture and Engineering Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Aerospace Engineers, Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other, Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Surveying and Mapping Technicians, Surveyors. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.