Tire Builders Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Tire Builders worker at that point in the distribution, so $65,410 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

The occupation employed 20,970 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. North Carolina is the largest employer at 3,490 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 30.5% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Oklahoma, whose location quotient of 8.11 says this work is 8.11 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $70,250, which is 1.8 times the $39,990 at the 10th, a difference of $30,260 annually. Because the mean wage ($56,230) sits above the median ($55,580), 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, 20 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Oklahoma at $66,710; the jobs leader is North Carolina:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Tire Builders stands number 549 by employment and number 464 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Production Occupations, the group median wage is $46,020 across 105 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 21% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 4 of the 19 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $55,580, 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

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA is the largest metro employer with 730 jobs, 3.5% 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, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $46,180 a year, against $46,180 in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. 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: $4,632 a month before tax, $2,138 biweekly, $1,069 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($48,740) to the 75th ($65,410) is worth $16,670 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 $61,138 would sit between the median ($55,580) and the 75th percentile ($65,410), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $48,740, is $6,840 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Production Occupations

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