Occupation / job
Camera and Photographic Equipment 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
$52,720 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $2,700 apart. Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers pays what the average job pays, so the decision has to be made on the work, the entry cost and the spread rather than on the wage.
1,650 people work as Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers nationally — small enough that a whole metro may hold a handful of positions, so relocation is frequently the price of entry and of every promotion after it.
This work suits people who like variety in the fault rather than variety in the setting, and who would rather fix than build.
No verified preparation time is on file for Camera and Photographic Equipment 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
$41,630 to $66,070 — 1.6x, or $2,036 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
Even the bottom quarter, under $41,630, lands within $8,390 of the $50,020 typical American wage. The downside of Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers is not really the money.
Avoid it if you would find it demoralising to arrive only when something has already failed.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 1,650 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 1.6x between $41,630 and $66,070 this is a normally shaped occupation. $52,720 is what the middle of Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
The middle half of this field earns between $41,630 and $66,070. That is $24,440 of range, with $52,720 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $66,070, the 75th percentile, is worth $13,350 a year more than the $52,720 midpoint and $24,440 more than the $41,630 a quarter of Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers settle for.
From $52,720 it is $11,090 down to the bottom quarter and $13,350 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers is $25.34 an hour. The quarters sit at $20.01 and $31.76, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
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 Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $52,720 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers, the hourly figure is $52,720 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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