Mechanical Door Repairers 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 ($37,160) to the 90th ($73,160). 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

The occupation employed 27,970 people in May 2024, 0.02% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 3,130 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 25.6% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Nebraska, whose location quotient of 2.36 says this work is 2.36 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $36,000 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($73,160) is 2.0 times the 10th percentile ($37,160), a gap of $36,000 a year. The mean of $54,110 sitting above the median of $51,050 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Massachusetts posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $67,320, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Mechanical Door Repairers stands number 496 by employment and number 504 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 14% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 19 of the 47 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $51,050, 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 1,670 jobs, 6.0% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 95 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $51,960 a year, against $62,570 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $51,050 works out to $4,254 a month before taxes, $1,963 per biweekly paycheck, and $982 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($44,720) to the 75th ($61,350) is worth $16,630 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $56,155 would sit between the median ($51,050) and the 75th percentile ($61,350), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $44,720, is $6,330 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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