Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers offer sit among all 11,400 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

With 11,400 jobs nationally, Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 860 of those jobs, the top three states hold 20.4%, and the deepest concentration sits in Maine (location quotient 4.32, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $102,550, which is 2.4 times the $42,360 at the 10th, a difference of $60,190 annually. Because the mean wage ($69,180) sits above the median ($64,190), 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, 43 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is New York at $103,010; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers stands number 672 by employment and number 343 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 0.2% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 21 of the 43 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $64,190, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 570 jobs, 5.0% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 52 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $93,290 a year, against $93,290 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers paycheck, gross, is $2,469 every two weeks on an annual $64,190, which is $5,349 a month and $1,234 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($50,610) to the 75th ($84,770) is worth $34,160 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 $70,609 would sit between the median ($64,190) and the 75th percentile ($84,770), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $50,610, is $13,580 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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