Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door worker at that point in the distribution, so $97,400 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

With 46,920 jobs nationally, Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door make up 0.03% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 8,470 of those jobs, the top three states hold 36.1%, and the deepest concentration sits in Wyoming (location quotient 3.54, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

One in ten workers in this field earns $43,840 or less, and one in ten earns $109,050 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.5 to 1 and the annual gap is $65,210. The mean ($75,970) versus median ($74,690) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 50 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Alaska at $106,250; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door stands number 401 by employment and number 256 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 26% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.8% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 25 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $74,690, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 3,530 jobs, 7.5% 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, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $58,920 a year, against $111,300 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. 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

The median annual wage of $74,690 works out to $6,224 a month before taxes, $2,873 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,436 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($53,060) to the 75th ($97,400) is worth $44,340 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $82,159 would sit between the median ($74,690) and the 75th percentile ($97,400), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $53,060, is $21,630 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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