Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians worker at that point in the distribution, so $63,300 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 18,710, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. Texas leads the state table with 2,590 jobs; the top three states sum to 32.3% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Idaho posts a location quotient of 4.20, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $43,370 at the 25th percentile, $50,540 at the middle, $63,300 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $41,170, a ratio of 2.2 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 Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians runs from the $64,080 median in Nevada down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (2,590 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians stands number 575 by employment and number 512 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 15% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 20 of the 46 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $50,540, 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 820 jobs, 4.4% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 73 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, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $53,810 a year, against $71,180 in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ. 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

As a household number, $50,540 a year is $4,212 a month gross, $1,944 every two weeks, $972 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($43,370) to the 75th ($63,300) is worth $19,930 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 $4,212 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 $55,594 would sit between the median ($50,540) and the 75th percentile ($63,300), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $43,370, is $7,170 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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