Tire Repairers and Changers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Tire Repairers and Changers worker at that point in the distribution, so $43,810 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

BLS counted 106,620 Tire Repairers and Changers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.07% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Montana, where the location quotient is 3.06, meaning the occupation holds 3.06 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 14,200 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 30.1% of the national total.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $19,020 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($48,900) is 1.6 times the 10th percentile ($29,880), a gap of $19,020 a year. The mean of $39,140 sitting above the median of $37,120 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Hawaii at $48,300; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Tire Repairers and Changers stands number 261 by employment and number 759 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 37% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.8% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 24 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,120, 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

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is the largest metro employer with 3,820 jobs, 3.6% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Albuquerque, NM posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $33,800 a year, against $50,970 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,093 a month before tax, $1,428 biweekly, $714 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($33,990) to the 75th ($43,810) is worth $9,820 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 $40,832 would sit between the median ($37,120) and the 75th percentile ($43,810), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $33,990, is $3,130 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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