Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers worker at that point in the distribution, so $131,740 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 23,340, or 0.02% of the U.S. total. New York leads the state table with 3,710 jobs; the top three states sum to 37.0% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Maryland posts a location quotient of 2.87, 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 $54,720 or less, and one in ten earns $149,250 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.7 to 1 and the annual gap is $94,530. The mean ($104,860) versus median ($106,580) comparison shows an unusually symmetric ladder in this occupation.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts New York first at 3,710 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Hawaii would lead at $150,600. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers stands number 525 by employment and number 91 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Construction and Extraction Occupations, the group median wage is $54,660 across 60 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 95% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 20 of the 37 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $106,580, 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 3,250 jobs, 13.9% 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, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $94,890 a year, against $130,550 in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. 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

As a household number, $106,580 a year is $8,882 a month gross, $4,099 every two weeks, $2,050 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($76,700) to the 75th ($131,740) is worth $55,040 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 $8,882 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 $117,238 would sit between the median ($106,580) and the 75th percentile ($131,740), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $76,700, is $29,880 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Construction and Extraction Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Structural Iron and Steel Workers, Helpers--Electricians, Glaziers, Brickmasons and Blockmasons, Hazardous Materials Removal Workers, Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.