Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers worker at that point in the distribution, so $66,180 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 16,570 jobs nationally, Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 2,460 of those jobs, the top three states hold 32.5%, and the deepest concentration sits in North Dakota (location quotient 3.79, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $79,230, which is 2.2 times the $36,310 at the 10th, a difference of $42,920 annually. Because the mean wage ($56,820) sits above the median ($53,990), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

California posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $70,310, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers stands number 593 by employment and number 478 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 9% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 18 of the 42 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $53,990, 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 980 jobs, 5.9% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

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, $55,610 a year, against $83,010 in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $53,990 a year is $4,499 a month gross, $2,077 every two weeks, $1,038 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($44,480) to the 75th ($66,180) is worth $21,700 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 $4,499 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 $59,389 would sit between the median ($53,990) and the 75th percentile ($66,180), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $44,480, is $9,510 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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