Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers offer sit among all 261,140 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

The occupation employed 261,140 people in May 2024, 0.17% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 38,580 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.7% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in New Hampshire, whose location quotient of 3.08 says this work is 3.08 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $34,110 or less, and one in ten earns $61,080 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 1.8 to 1 and the annual gap is $26,970. The mean ($45,930) versus median ($44,040) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 38,580 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Maryland would lead at $50,980. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers stands number 136 by employment and number 653 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Production Occupations, the group median wage is $46,020 across 105 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 4% less than its group median, and it supplies 3.0% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 16 of the 48 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $44,040, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 14,020 jobs, 5.4% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 239 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $27,970 a year, against $58,160 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,670 a month before tax, $1,694 biweekly, $847 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($37,450) to the 75th ($49,830) is worth $12,380 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 $48,444 would sit between the median ($44,040) and the 75th percentile ($49,830), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $37,450, is $6,590 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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