Motorcycle Mechanics Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($31,770) to the 90th ($70,210). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 14,010 Motorcycle Mechanics jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Alaska, where the location quotient is 5.07, meaning the occupation holds 5.07 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 1,540 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 22.3% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $70,210, which is 2.2 times the $31,770 at the 10th, a difference of $38,440 annually. Because the mean wage ($49,650) sits above the median ($47,200), 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, 48 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is North Dakota at $59,440; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Motorcycle Mechanics stands number 629 by employment and number 590 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 20% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 21 of the 48 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $47,200, 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 510 jobs, 3.6% 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, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $56,500 a year, against $56,500 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, 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

As a household number, $47,200 a year is $3,933 a month gross, $1,815 every two weeks, $908 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($38,270) to the 75th ($58,880) is worth $20,610 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 $3,933 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 $51,920 would sit between the median ($47,200) and the 75th percentile ($58,880), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $38,270, is $8,930 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

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