Occupation / job
Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers pays $52,600 at the midpoint against $50,020 across all occupations. The headline argues neither for nor against it; the case has to be made on the spread, the entry cost and what the day is actually like.
19,780 people work as Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.
These roles suit people who like electrical fault work — a discipline where the answer exists, is findable, and is usually somewhere nobody looked.
No verified preparation time is on file for Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
From $44,490 to $67,300 is $1,900 a month, or 1.5x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
The bottom quarter of Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers earns under $44,490, which is within $5,530 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if working live or at height is not a risk you are prepared to carry routinely.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 19,780 figure counts people already working as Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A 1.5x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $52,600 as where you might be after years in Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers, and $44,490 as where you would start.
In cash terms the middle half of Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers runs $44,490 to $67,300 — $22,810 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $52,600.
Getting to $67,300, the 75th percentile, is worth $14,700 a year more than the $52,600 midpoint and $22,810 more than the $44,490 a quarter of Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers settle for.
It is $8,110 from $52,600 down to $44,490 but $14,700 up to $67,300. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $21.38 at the bottom quarter, $25.28 at the midpoint, $32.35 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $52,600 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers, the hourly figure is $52,600 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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