Occupation / job
Bicycle 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
At $42,780 against $50,020, this pays $603 a month less than the typical American job. Below the midpoint but within reach of it: the spread and the floor below decide whether that description flatters Bicycle Repairers or not.
Employment as Bicycle Repairers is 12,170 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.
This work suits people who want a trade with immediate feedback and a customer who can see the result, and who do not mind being dirty at the end of the day.
We carry no verified training length for Bicycle Repairers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
$11,660 separates the bottom quarter at $36,360 from the top quarter at $48,020, a ratio of 1.3x. In a band that tight, moving up inside Bicycle Repairers pays less than moving out of it would.
The 25th percentile is $36,360 — $17.48 an hour, and $13,660 below the $50,020 typical American job. Entry-level in this field means that number, not the midpoint, so budget against it.
Avoid it if flat-rate pay would frustrate you — being paid the book time rather than the actual time cuts both ways.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 12,170 figure counts people already working as Bicycle 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 1.3x ratio from $36,360 to $48,020 makes $42,780 a dependable planning number. Dependable is the whole offer here — there is not much room above it.
Put in money rather than ratios: $36,360 at the 25th percentile, $42,780 at the midpoint, $48,020 at the 75th. $11,660 separates the quarter of Bicycle Repairers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $48,020, the 75th percentile, is worth $5,240 a year more than the $42,780 midpoint and $11,660 more than the $36,360 a quarter of Bicycle Repairers settle for.
The fall from $42,780 to the $36,360 bottom quarter is $6,420; the climb to the $48,020 top quarter is $5,240. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $20.56 at the midpoint for Bicycle Repairers, $17.48 at the 25th percentile and $23.08 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
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 Bicycle Repairers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $42,780 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $42,780 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Bicycle Repairers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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