Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment Salary and Pay
How much do Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment make?
Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment pay a median of $82,730 a year in the BLS May 2024 survey, with a mean of $80,980 across 7,310 counted jobs. Half of all workers in the occupation earn between $65,750 and $95,730.
What Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment actually pay, from the federal wage survey: a $82,730 median, the full percentile ladder, every state's table, and the metros where the jobs and the money sit, on one page.
Updated November 5, 2026
Salary converter for this occupation
Gross pay only, before taxes and benefits. The picker starts at this occupation's median ($82,730); the custom box accepts any annual figure, which is how you price an offer letter against the ladder below.
The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)
| Pay level | Annual wage | Hourly wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $49,490 | $23.79 |
| 25th percentile | $65,750 | $31.61 |
| Median (50th) | $82,730 | $39.77 |
| 75th percentile | $95,730 | $46.03 |
| 90th percentile | $106,110 | $51.01 |
Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment offer sit among all 7,310 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.
Employment and concentration
BLS counted 7,310 Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment jobs in May 2024, which is 0.00% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Nebraska, where the location quotient is 7.67, meaning the occupation holds 7.67 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 1,250 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 33.5% of the national total.
One in ten workers in this field earns $49,490 or less, and one in ten earns $106,110 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.1 to 1 and the annual gap is $56,620. The mean ($80,980) versus median ($82,730) comparison shows an unusually symmetric ladder in this occupation.
Pay by state
Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 1,250 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Washington would lead at $108,100. Both orderings are printed in one table:
| State | Employment | Jobs per 1,000 | Location quotient | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,250 | 0.1 | 1.47 | $90,560 | $86,640 |
| Texas | 710 | 0.1 | 1.08 | $84,390 | $84,470 |
| New York | 490 | 0.1 | 1.08 | $79,750 | $91,530 |
| Maryland | 480 | 0.2 | 3.65 | $81,710 | $79,220 |
| Nebraska | 370 | 0.4 | 7.67 | $81,080 | $84,730 |
| Florida | 310 | 0.0 | 0.67 | $67,130 | $66,430 |
| Georgia | 260 | 0.1 | 1.11 | $71,350 | $61,000 |
| Illinois | 200 | 0.0 | 0.70 | $82,660 | $83,720 |
| Washington | 200 | 0.1 | 1.20 | $111,420 | $108,100 |
| Tennessee | 190 | 0.1 | 1.20 | $60,760 | $56,960 |
| Virginia | 170 | 0.0 | 0.86 | $80,610 | $83,470 |
| Maine | 160 | 0.3 | 5.47 | $57,660 | $57,040 |
| Michigan | 140 | 0.0 | 0.66 | $72,280 | $65,840 |
| Louisiana | 130 | 0.1 | 1.43 | $70,560 | $71,700 |
| Iowa | 120 | 0.1 | 1.56 | $72,850 | $67,860 |
| Massachusetts | 120 | 0.0 | 0.68 | $88,820 | $80,300 |
| Nevada | 120 | 0.1 | 1.67 | $90,940 | $99,540 |
| Oklahoma | 110 | 0.1 | 1.33 | $54,000 | $53,920 |
| Colorado | 100 | 0.0 | 0.75 | $86,570 | $90,040 |
| Kansas | 90 | 0.1 | 1.31 | $95,110 | $101,030 |
| Missouri | 90 | 0.0 | 0.62 | $81,430 | $83,850 |
| Arizona | 70 | 0.0 | 0.45 | $83,040 | $82,840 |
| Wisconsin | 60 | 0.0 | 0.41 | $62,160 | $46,310 |
| Alabama | 50 | 0.0 | 0.48 | $67,900 | $67,350 |
| Indiana | 50 | 0.0 | 0.34 | $69,420 | $50,840 |
| Minnesota | 50 | 0.0 | 0.34 | $78,190 | $76,690 |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | 0.0 | 0.16 | $70,360 | $65,230 |
| Hawaii | 40 | 0.1 | 1.21 | $69,510 | $45,130 |
| Ohio | n/p | n/p | n/p | $72,660 | $73,340 |
The occupation in context
Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment stands number 725 by employment and number 194 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 40% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 12 of the 29 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $82,730, 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
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 430 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
| Metropolitan area | Employment | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 430 | $91,420 | $96,460 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | 300 | $112,840 | $119,470 |
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 290 | $85,530 | $91,530 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | 200 | $85,840 | $81,770 |
| Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC | 140 | $77,040 | $83,470 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA | 130 | $78,720 | $79,490 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | 130 | $80,670 | $86,640 |
| Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | 110 | $74,990 | $76,430 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | 110 | $110,350 | $106,050 |
| Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV | 100 | $90,260 | $99,540 |
What the median pay looks like as a budget
The median Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment paycheck, gross, is $3,182 every two weeks on an annual $82,730, which is $6,894 a month and $1,591 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($65,750) to the 75th ($95,730) is worth $29,980 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 $91,003 would sit between the median ($82,730) and the 75th percentile ($95,730), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $65,750, is $16,980 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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Frequently asked questions
How much do Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment make an hour?
The median hourly wage is $39.77, and the mean hourly wage is $38.93, from the May 2024 OEWS estimates. Annual figures for Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment use the survey's 2,080-hour year where a conversion is needed, which is how the $82,730 annual median and the hourly figures reconcile.
Which state pays Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment the most?
Washington, with a median annual wage of $108,100 across 200 jobs. The full state table on this page ranks every publishing state by employment and shows median and mean side by side.
How big is the Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment workforce?
7,310 wage and salary workers in May 2024, 0.00% of U.S. employment in the survey. Employment concentrates most in Nebraska by location quotient (7.67).
How current is this Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment salary data?
These are the May 2024 OEWS estimates behind the $82,730 median and the 7,310 job count on this page, released by BLS on April 2, 2025 and downloaded on November 5, 2026. OEWS is an employer survey, so those figures describe wages actually paid in this occupation, not advertised ranges.