Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $52,090. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

With 9,680 jobs nationally, Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 1,610 of those jobs, the top three states hold 31.9%, and the deepest concentration sits in Hawaii (location quotient 5.08, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

One in ten workers in this field earns $44,530 or less, and one in ten earns $100,730 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.3 to 1 and the annual gap is $56,200. The mean ($70,420) versus median ($67,080) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other runs from the $110,960 median in Alaska down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (1,610 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other stands number 691 by employment and number 311 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 13% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 17 of the 40 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $67,080, 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 540 jobs, 5.6% 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, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $67,380 a year, against $67,380 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, 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 Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other paycheck, gross, is $2,580 every two weeks on an annual $67,080, which is $5,590 a month and $1,290 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($52,090) to the 75th ($82,030) is worth $29,940 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 $73,788 would sit between the median ($67,080) and the 75th percentile ($82,030), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $52,090, is $14,990 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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