Installation, Maintenance, and Repair: pay for 51 occupations, May 2025

In short

• Highest median pay in this field: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay, $103,020 a year.
• Lowest: Tire Repairers and Changers, $37,710 a year.
• Most jobs: Maintenance and Repair Workers, General (1,529,700), Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics (704,640) and First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers (617,500).
• For comparison, the median for all occupations in the country was $50,980 a year.

Sorted by median pay, highest first. "Not published" in the yearly or hourly column means BLS releases only the other one for that occupation.

The field as a whole

Installation, Maintenance, and Repair holds 6,086,190 of the 155,495,730 jobs in the national figures, about 4 in every 100. Its median pay of $59,620 a year is 17% above the median for all occupations ($50,980), which places it number 10 of the 22 fields. Across the whole field, the lowest-paid tenth earned less than $37,000 and the highest-paid tenth more than $96,540; the middle half earned between $46,110 and $76,670. The average was $63,320, 6% above the median.

Inside the field

Inside the field, the best-paid occupation with a published yearly median earns 2.7 times the lowest ($103,020 against $37,710). 37 of the 51 occupations with a yearly median are above the national median of $50,980, and 14 are below it. The occupation in the middle of the field's list is Maintenance Workers, Machinery, at $60,850. Jobs are unevenly spread: the three largest occupations hold 47% of the field's jobs, while the smallest, Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons, has 1,080. Pay stretches furthest within Commercial Divers, where the highest-paid tenth earn over $157,790 and the lowest-paid tenth under $43,330.

Reading the field

Pay also moves with place. For the field's largest occupation, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General, the state medians run from $23,220 in Puerto Rico to $60,310 in District of Columbia; its own page has every state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics sorts every occupation into one field by the work done, not by the industry of the employer, so an accountant at a hospital is counted under business and financial operations, not health care.

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Checked in November 2026. Figures are for employees, before tax, and leave out overtime pay and benefits. They are official statistics, not advice or a pay offer; see bls.gov/oes for the original tables.

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