Signal and Track Switch Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Signal and Track Switch Repairers offer sit among all 8,210 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 8,210 Signal and Track Switch Repairers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in New York, where the location quotient is 3.70, meaning the occupation holds 3.70 times its national share of local jobs. New York employs the most people outright, 1,880 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 38.7% of the national total.

One in ten workers in this field earns $57,410 or less, and one in ten earns $104,860 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 1.8 to 1 and the annual gap is $47,450. The mean ($84,940) versus median ($83,600) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 25 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Massachusetts at $101,800; the jobs leader is New York:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Signal and Track Switch Repairers stands number 711 by employment and number 190 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 41% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 7 of the 23 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $83,600, 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 1,070 jobs, 13.0% 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, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $93,610 a year, against $93,610 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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, $83,600 a year is $6,967 a month gross, $3,215 every two weeks, $1,608 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($75,680) to the 75th ($95,620) is worth $19,940 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 $6,967 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 $91,960 would sit between the median ($83,600) and the 75th percentile ($95,620), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $75,680, is $7,920 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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