Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians offer sit among all 14,680 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 14,680 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 1,620 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.6% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Massachusetts, whose location quotient of 3.12 says this work is 3.12 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $61,810 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($109,580) is 2.3 times the 10th percentile ($47,770), a gap of $61,810 a year. The mean of $75,710 sitting above the median of $70,760 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians runs from the $106,410 median in Washington down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (1,620 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians stands number 614 by employment and number 282 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Architecture and Engineering Occupations, the group median wage is $96,690 across 36 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 27% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.6% of the group's 2,567,220 jobs. In 21 of the 39 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $70,760, 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

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is the largest metro employer with 860 jobs, 5.9% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 68 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, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $71,600 a year, against $75,440 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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

The median annual wage of $70,760 works out to $5,897 a month before taxes, $2,722 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,361 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($58,570) to the 75th ($87,320) is worth $28,750 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $77,836 would sit between the median ($70,760) and the 75th percentile ($87,320), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $58,570, is $12,190 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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