Medical Equipment Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Medical Equipment Repairers worker at that point in the distribution, so $79,440 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 60,830 people in May 2024, 0.04% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 6,670 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Kansas, whose location quotient of 1.84 says this work is 1.84 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $39,060 or less, and one in ten earns $99,290 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.5 to 1 and the annual gap is $60,230. The mean ($66,810) versus median ($62,630) 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 Equipment Repairers runs from the $80,580 median in South Dakota down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (6,670 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Medical Equipment Repairers stands number 354 by employment and number 367 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 6% more than its group median, and it supplies 1.0% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 24 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $62,630, 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

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN is the largest metro employer with 2,310 jobs, 3.8% 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

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $59,040 a year, against $88,410 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $62,630 works out to $5,219 a month before taxes, $2,409 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,204 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($48,100) to the 75th ($79,440) is worth $31,340 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 $68,893 would sit between the median ($62,630) and the 75th percentile ($79,440), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $48,100, is $14,530 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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