Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers worker at that point in the distribution, so $46,600 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

With 97,540 jobs nationally, Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers make up 0.06% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 14,200 of those jobs, the top three states hold 32.2%, and the deepest concentration sits in Alaska (location quotient 3.25, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $25,880 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($54,650) is 1.9 times the 10th percentile ($28,770), a gap of $25,880 a year. The mean of $40,750 sitting above the median of $38,860 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 Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers runs from the $61,780 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (14,200 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers stands number 276 by employment and number 721 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 34% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.6% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 26 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $38,860, 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 5,660 jobs, 5.8% 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, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $26,220 a year, against $51,420 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. 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, $38,860 a year is $3,238 a month gross, $1,495 every two weeks, $747 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($33,760) to the 75th ($46,600) is worth $12,840 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 $3,238 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 $42,746 would sit between the median ($38,860) and the 75th percentile ($46,600), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $33,760, is $5,100 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

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