Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines offer sit among all 180,270 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 180,270 Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines jobs in May 2024, which is 0.12% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Wyoming, where the location quotient is 4.41, meaning the occupation holds 4.41 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 21,170 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 28.2% of the national total.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $53,500 at the 25th percentile, $63,980 at the middle, $78,090 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $46,910, a ratio of 2.0 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines runs from the $80,770 median in Rhode Island down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (21,170 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines stands number 173 by employment and number 345 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 8% more than its group median, and it supplies 3.0% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 23 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $63,980, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 7,900 jobs, 4.4% 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, Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $57,420 a year, against $97,080 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. 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, $63,980 a year is $5,332 a month gross, $2,461 every two weeks, $1,230 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($53,500) to the 75th ($78,090) is worth $24,590 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 $5,332 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 $70,378 would sit between the median ($63,980) and the 75th percentile ($78,090), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $53,500, is $10,480 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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