Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment 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 Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $56,750. 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

May 2024 employment stood at 59,990, or 0.04% of the U.S. total. Texas leads the state table with 10,760 jobs; the top three states sum to 32.8% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: South Dakota posts a location quotient of 2.45, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $56,750 at the 25th percentile, $71,300 at the middle, $85,160 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $58,080, a ratio of 2.3 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

The state spread for Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment runs from the $92,230 median in Washington down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (10,760 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment stands number 356 by employment and number 279 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 20% more than its group median, and it supplies 1.0% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 26 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $71,300, 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 3,530 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, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $58,620 a year, against $100,640 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. 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, $71,300 a year is $5,942 a month gross, $2,742 every two weeks, $1,371 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($56,750) to the 75th ($85,160) is worth $28,410 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 $5,942 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 $78,430 would sit between the median ($71,300) and the 75th percentile ($85,160), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $56,750, is $14,550 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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