Communications Equipment Operators, All Other Salary and Pay
How much do Communications Equipment Operators, All Other make?
The median Communications Equipment Operators, All Other worker earns $49,910 a year ($24.00), and the mean annual wage is $55,890. BLS counted 1,390 people in this occupation in May 2024. The middle half of earners make between $44,620 and $64,310.
One page for the whole Communications Equipment Operators, All Other pay distribution: national ladder first, then all 8 state rows and the metro rankings, every figure from BLS OEWS May 2024.
Updated November 5, 2026
Salary converter for this occupation
Conversions use 12 months, 26 biweekly periods, 52 weeks, and 2,080 hours. No level in this occupation's ladder reaches the BLS top code, so every figure the converter shows is a published estimate rather than a floor.
The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)
| Pay level | Annual wage | Hourly wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $35,980 | $17.30 |
| 25th percentile | $44,620 | $21.45 |
| Median (50th) | $49,910 | $24.00 |
| 75th percentile | $64,310 | $30.92 |
| 90th percentile | $89,110 | $42.84 |
A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Communications Equipment Operators, All Other ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $44,620. 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
With 1,390 jobs nationally, Communications Equipment Operators, All Other make up 0.00% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 230 of those jobs, the top three states hold 37.4%, and the deepest concentration sits in Louisiana (location quotient 11.64, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.
Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $44,620 at the 25th percentile, $49,910 at the middle, $64,310 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $53,130, a ratio of 2.5 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
Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 230 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, California would lead at $88,080. Both orderings are printed in one table:
| State | Employment | Jobs per 1,000 | Location quotient | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 230 | 0.0 | 1.44 | $82,370 | $88,080 |
| Louisiana | 200 | 0.1 | 11.64 | $46,050 | $48,550 |
| Florida | 90 | 0.0 | 0.99 | $48,020 | $36,960 |
| Tennessee | 90 | 0.0 | 3.09 | $46,530 | $49,760 |
| Ohio | 80 | 0.0 | 1.57 | $47,520 | $46,090 |
| Texas | 80 | 0.0 | 0.63 | $56,080 | $55,880 |
| Michigan | 60 | 0.0 | 1.62 | $48,600 | $46,090 |
| Massachusetts | n/p | n/p | n/p | $55,440 | $53,000 |
The occupation in context
Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Communications Equipment Operators, All Other stands number 813 by employment and number 520 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 4% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.0% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 3 of the 8 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $49,910, 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
San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR is the largest metro employer with 140 jobs, 10.1% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 6 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
| Metropolitan area | Employment | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR | 140 | $24,620 | $22,880 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | 60 | $74,310 | $76,230 |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 40 | n/p | n/p |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | 40 | n/p | n/p |
| Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH | n/p | $60,000 | $53,000 |
| Lafayette, LA | n/p | $44,040 | $48,970 |
What the median pay looks like as a budget
As a household number, $49,910 a year is $4,159 a month gross, $1,920 every two weeks, $960 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($44,620) to the 75th ($64,310) is worth $19,690 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 $4,159 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 $54,901 would sit between the median ($49,910) and the 75th percentile ($64,310), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $44,620, is $5,290 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.
Related occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations
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Frequently asked questions
How much do Communications Equipment Operators, All Other make?
The median annual wage is $49,910 and the mean is $55,890 in the BLS OEWS May 2024 estimates. The middle half of workers earn between $44,620 and $64,310 a year.
Which state pays Communications Equipment Operators, All Other the most?
By median annual wage, California leads the state table at $88,080, based on 230 jobs in that state. By mean wage and by headcount the leaders can differ, so the state table on this page shows all three measures side by side.
How many Communications Equipment Operators, All Other are there in the United States?
BLS counted 1,390 wage and salary workers in this occupation in May 2024, 0.00% of all U.S. employment in the survey. The largest state employer is California with 230 jobs.
What do the OEWS percentiles mean for Communications Equipment Operators, All Other?
They mark points in this occupation's pay distribution. One worker in ten earns $35,980 or less and one in ten earns $89,110 or more; the median, $49,910, is the wage of the worker exactly in the middle of the 1,390 counted jobs.