Locksmiths and Safe Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Locksmiths and Safe Repairers offer sit among all 15,550 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

With 15,550 jobs nationally, Locksmiths and Safe Repairers make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 2,130 of those jobs, the top three states hold 31.3%, and the deepest concentration sits in Delaware (location quotient 2.37, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $40,650 at the 25th percentile, $50,490 at the middle, $64,330 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $44,590, a ratio of 2.3 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 2,130 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, District of Columbia would lead at $74,470. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Locksmiths and Safe Repairers stands number 604 by employment and number 513 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 15% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 18 of the 47 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $50,490, 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 1,290 jobs, 8.3% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $61,160 a year, against $64,590 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $4,208 a month before tax, $1,942 biweekly, $971 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($40,650) to the 75th ($64,330) is worth $23,680 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $55,539 would sit between the median ($50,490) and the 75th percentile ($64,330), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $40,650, is $9,840 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines, Automotive Body and Related Repairers, Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers, Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians, Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers, Tire Repairers and Changers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.