Medical Equipment Preparers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Medical Equipment Preparers offer sit among all 72,760 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 72,760 people in May 2024, 0.05% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 8,630 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 24.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Oregon, whose location quotient of 1.83 says this work is 1.83 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $67,070, which is 1.9 times the $35,400 at the 10th, a difference of $31,670 annually. Because the mean wage ($48,990) sits above the median ($46,490), 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, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is California at $62,710; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Medical Equipment Preparers stands number 321 by employment and number 611 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Healthcare Support Occupations, the group median wage is $41,590 across 17 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 12% more than its group median, and it supplies 1.0% of the group's 7,448,000 jobs. In 20 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $46,490, 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 5,120 jobs, 7.0% 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, Cleveland, OH posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $43,200 a year, against $82,250 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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 Medical Equipment Preparers paycheck, gross, is $1,788 every two weeks on an annual $46,490, which is $3,874 a month and $894 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($38,910) to the 75th ($56,160) is worth $17,250 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 $51,139 would sit between the median ($46,490) and the 75th percentile ($56,160), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $38,910, is $7,580 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Healthcare Support Occupations

Sibling occupations in Healthcare Support Occupations: Orderlies, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapist Aides, Medical Transcriptionists, Pharmacy Aides, Psychiatric Aides. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.