Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators offer sit among all 1,457,800 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 1,457,800 people in May 2024, 0.95% of every job BLS counted. Michigan is the largest employer at 124,340 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 22.5% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Indiana, whose location quotient of 3.21 says this work is 3.21 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $30,380 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($62,030) is 2.0 times the 10th percentile ($31,650), a gap of $30,380 a year. The mean of $44,860 sitting above the median of $42,210 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators runs from the $47,720 median in North Dakota down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Michigan (124,340 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators stands number 18 by employment and number 671 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 8% less than its group median, and it supplies 16.7% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 28 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $42,210, 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

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI is the largest metro employer with 62,530 jobs, 4.3% 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, Arecibo, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $24,280 a year, against $64,370 in Lafayette, LA. 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,518 a month before tax, $1,623 biweekly, $812 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($36,660) to the 75th ($49,410) is worth $12,750 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $46,431 would sit between the median ($42,210) and the 75th percentile ($49,410), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $36,660, is $5,550 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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