Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers 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 Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $50,580. 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

BLS counted 153,890 Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.10% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Alaska, where the location quotient is 2.43, meaning the occupation holds 2.43 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 17,190 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 28.1% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $94,970, which is 2.2 times the $42,440 at the 10th, a difference of $52,530 annually. Because the mean wage ($66,650) sits above the median ($62,630), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers runs from the $111,540 median in Rhode Island down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (17,190 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers stands number 200 by employment and number 366 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 6% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.5% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 25 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $62,630, 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 7,400 jobs, 4.8% 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, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $32,360 a year, against $95,580 in Anchorage, AK. 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $5,219 a month before tax, $2,409 biweekly, $1,204 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($50,580) to the 75th ($80,040) is worth $29,460 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $68,893 would sit between the median ($62,630) and the 75th percentile ($80,040), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $50,580, is $12,050 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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