Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers Salary and Pay
How much do Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers make?
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers pay a median of $41,080 a year in the BLS May 2024 survey, with a mean of $42,620 across 2,610 counted jobs. Half of all workers in the occupation earn between $35,290 and $48,410.
The complete pay picture for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers: 2,610 jobs nationally, a median of $41,080, and the state and metro tables that show where that median is beaten and where it is not.
Updated November 5, 2026
Salary converter for this occupation
Gross pay only, before taxes and benefits. The picker starts at this occupation's median ($41,080); the custom box accepts any annual figure, which is how you price an offer letter against the ladder below.
The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)
| Pay level | Annual wage | Hourly wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $30,280 | $14.56 |
| 25th percentile | $35,290 | $16.96 |
| Median (50th) | $41,080 | $19.75 |
| 75th percentile | $48,410 | $23.28 |
| 90th percentile | $57,190 | $27.50 |
Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers offer sit among all 2,610 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
The occupation employed 2,610 people in May 2024, 0.00% of every job BLS counted. North Carolina is the largest employer at 200 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 19.2% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Montana, whose location quotient of 8.62 says this work is 8.62 times as dense there as it is nationwide.
Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $35,290 at the 25th percentile, $41,080 at the middle, $48,410 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $26,910, a ratio of 1.9 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
California posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $49,530, and North Carolina the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:
| State | Employment | Jobs per 1,000 | Location quotient | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 200 | 0.0 | 2.47 | $46,540 | $47,250 |
| Pennsylvania | 200 | 0.0 | 1.92 | $43,300 | $40,070 |
| California | 100 | 0.0 | 0.32 | $52,960 | $49,530 |
| Florida | 90 | 0.0 | 0.52 | $41,970 | $38,210 |
| Georgia | 90 | 0.0 | 1.05 | $49,050 | $46,360 |
| Montana | 70 | 0.1 | 8.62 | $45,940 | $46,190 |
| New York | 70 | 0.0 | 0.43 | $45,550 | $44,790 |
| Ohio | 70 | 0.0 | 0.79 | $49,300 | $45,210 |
| West Virginia | 70 | 0.1 | 5.57 | $29,510 | $25,860 |
| Tennessee | 60 | 0.0 | 1.03 | $37,590 | $37,440 |
| Alabama | 50 | 0.0 | 1.42 | $48,010 | $40,640 |
| South Dakota | 40 | 0.1 | 5.40 | $46,700 | $46,840 |
| Virginia | 40 | 0.0 | 0.62 | $44,270 | $48,270 |
| New Mexico | 30 | 0.0 | 2.17 | $42,210 | $39,170 |
| Kentucky | n/p | n/p | n/p | $36,160 | $33,890 |
| Oklahoma | n/p | n/p | n/p | $30,170 | $26,410 |
| Texas | n/p | n/p | n/p | $37,310 | $35,290 |
| Washington | n/p | n/p | n/p | $51,030 | $49,030 |
The occupation in context
Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers stands number 796 by employment and number 688 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 31% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.0% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 9 of the 18 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $41,080, 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
Waco, TX is the largest metro employer with 30 jobs, 1.1% 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
| Metropolitan area | Employment | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waco, TX | 30 | $43,690 | $47,440 |
What the median pay looks like as a budget
The median Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers paycheck, gross, is $1,580 every two weeks on an annual $41,080, which is $3,423 a month and $790 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($35,290) to the 75th ($48,410) is worth $13,120 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 $45,188 would sit between the median ($41,080) and the 75th percentile ($48,410), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $35,290, is $5,790 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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Frequently asked questions
How much do Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers make?
The median annual wage is $41,080 and the mean is $42,620 in the BLS OEWS May 2024 estimates. The middle half of workers earn between $35,290 and $48,410 a year.
Which state pays Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers the most?
By median annual wage, California leads the state table at $49,530, based on 100 jobs in that state. By mean wage and by headcount the leaders can differ, so the state table on this page shows all three measures side by side.
How many Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers are there in the United States?
BLS counted 2,610 wage and salary workers in this occupation in May 2024, 0.00% of all U.S. employment in the survey. The largest state employer is North Carolina with 200 jobs.
What do the OEWS percentiles mean for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers?
They mark points in this occupation's pay distribution. One worker in ten earns $30,280 or less and one in ten earns $57,190 or more; the median, $41,080, is the wage of the worker exactly in the middle of the 2,610 counted jobs.