Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other offer sit among all 13,020 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

BLS counted 13,020 Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Hawaii, where the location quotient is 6.20, meaning the occupation holds 6.20 times its national share of local jobs. Georgia employs the most people outright, 930 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 18.5% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $133,650, which is 3.7 times the $35,670 at the 10th, a difference of $97,980 annually. Because the mean wage ($78,350) sits above the median ($67,190), 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, 38 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is District of Columbia at $119,020; the jobs leader is Georgia:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other stands number 643 by employment and number 309 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations, the group median wage is $66,220 across 36 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 1% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.7% of the group's 1,989,300 jobs. In 23 of the 37 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $67,190, 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

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 740 jobs, 5.7% 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, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $52,920 a year, against $111,170 in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. 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, $67,190 a year is $5,599 a month gross, $2,584 every two weeks, $1,292 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($48,490) to the 75th ($102,650) is worth $54,160 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 $5,599 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 $73,909 would sit between the median ($67,190) and the 75th percentile ($102,650), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $48,490, is $18,700 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Sibling occupations in Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations: Floral Designers, Commercial and Industrial Designers, Film and Video Editors, Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film, Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys, Media and Communication Workers, All Other. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.