Maintenance and Repair Workers, General Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Maintenance and Repair Workers, General offer sit among all 1,531,700 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 1,531,700 jobs nationally, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General make up 0.99% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 139,310 of those jobs, the top three states hold 25.9%, and the deepest concentration sits in Wyoming (location quotient 1.44, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $76,110, which is 2.2 times the $33,860 at the 10th, a difference of $42,250 annually. Because the mean wage ($52,430) sits above the median ($48,620), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

District of Columbia posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $60,600, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General stands number 16 by employment and number 557 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 25.3% 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 $48,620, 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 109,550 jobs, 7.2% 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, Mayaguez, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $23,020 a year, against $70,080 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. 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, $48,620 a year is $4,052 a month gross, $1,870 every two weeks, $935 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,050) to the 75th ($61,710) is worth $22,660 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 $4,052 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 $53,482 would sit between the median ($48,620) and the 75th percentile ($61,710), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,050, is $9,570 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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