Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($35,270) to the 90th ($77,150). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 183,690 Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other jobs in May 2024, which is 0.12% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Louisiana, where the location quotient is 3.06, meaning the occupation holds 3.06 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 27,450 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 32.5% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $77,150, which is 2.2 times the $35,270 at the 10th, a difference of $41,880 annually. Because the mean wage ($53,270) sits above the median ($48,640), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Alaska at $80,230; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other stands number 171 by employment and number 555 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 18% less than its group median, and it supplies 3.0% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 28 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $48,640, 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 9,420 jobs, 5.1% 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, Saginaw, MI posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $44,400 a year, against $78,450 in Urban Honolulu, HI. 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

The median Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other paycheck, gross, is $1,871 every two weeks on an annual $48,640, which is $4,053 a month and $935 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($40,700) to the 75th ($61,090) is worth $20,390 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 $53,504 would sit between the median ($48,640) and the 75th percentile ($61,090), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $40,700, is $7,940 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

Sibling occupations in Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations: Avionics Technicians, Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers, Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians, Rail Car Repairers, Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers, Locksmiths and Safe Repairers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.