Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay 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, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $79,930. 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 23,040, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. New York leads the state table with 2,930 jobs; the top three states sum to 31.5% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Maine posts a location quotient of 2.50, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

One in ten workers in this field earns $60,820 or less, and one in ten earns $127,970 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.1 to 1 and the annual gap is $67,150. The mean ($97,460) versus median ($100,940) comparison shows an unusually symmetric ladder in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay runs from the $126,460 median in Oregon down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in New York (2,930 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay stands number 529 by employment and number 122 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 70% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 26 of the 48 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $100,940, 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 2,920 jobs, 12.7% 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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $95,310 a year, against $110,980 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $8,412 a month before tax, $3,882 biweekly, $1,941 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($79,930) to the 75th ($114,740) is worth $34,810 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $111,034 would sit between the median ($100,940) and the 75th percentile ($114,740), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $79,930, is $21,010 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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