Medical Appliance Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Medical Appliance Technicians worker at that point in the distribution, so $58,710 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 11,490 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 1,400 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 33.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Rhode Island, whose location quotient of 5.07 says this work is 5.07 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $36,560 or less, and one in ten earns $74,570 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.0 to 1 and the annual gap is $38,010. The mean ($51,410) versus median ($47,060) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for Medical Appliance Technicians runs from the $84,070 median in Nebraska down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (1,400 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Medical Appliance Technicians stands number 668 by employment and number 595 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Production Occupations, the group median wage is $46,020 across 105 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 2% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 18 of the 38 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $47,060, 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 760 jobs, 6.6% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $45,870 a year, against $50,630 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $47,060 works out to $3,922 a month before taxes, $1,810 per biweekly paycheck, and $905 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($40,300) to the 75th ($58,710) is worth $18,410 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 $51,766 would sit between the median ($47,060) and the 75th percentile ($58,710), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $40,300, is $6,760 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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