First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 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 First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $61,240. 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

BLS counted 600,680 First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.39% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Wyoming, where the location quotient is 1.94, meaning the occupation holds 1.94 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 68,540 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 26.7% of the national total.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $75,820 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($124,280) is 2.6 times the 10th percentile ($48,460), a gap of $75,820 a year. The mean of $82,930 sitting above the median of $78,300 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 First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers runs from the $99,030 median in Alaska down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (68,540 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers stands number 64 by employment and number 224 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 32% more than its group median, and it supplies 9.9% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 24 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $78,300, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 24,680 jobs, 4.1% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

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, $48,560 a year, against $112,670 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers paycheck, gross, is $3,012 every two weeks on an annual $78,300, which is $6,525 a month and $1,506 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($61,240) to the 75th ($99,630) is worth $38,390 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $86,130 would sit between the median ($78,300) and the 75th percentile ($99,630), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $61,240, is $17,060 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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