Occupation / job
Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers 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
At $47,450 against $50,020, Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers sits $1.23 an hour under the typical American job. A gap that small is not a reason to choose it or to rule it out; the spread and the entry cost are where the real decision is.
26,410 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.
These roles suit people who want to be the one who keeps things running, in work where competence is obvious to everyone around you within about a week.
No verified preparation time is on file for Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers 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
A quarter of Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers earn under $39,760 and a quarter over $58,110 — 1.5x, or $18,350 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
A quarter of the field earns under $39,760 — $10,260 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if being on call, or being the person who arrives after something has already gone wrong, would wear on you.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 26,410 figure counts people already working as Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers 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
$39,760 to $58,110 is a 1.5x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.
In cash terms the middle half of Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers runs $39,760 to $58,110 — $18,350 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $47,450.
Between $39,760 and $58,110 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $47,450. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $10,660; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $18,350.
$10,660 separates $47,450 from the $58,110 top quarter, while only $7,690 separates it from $39,760. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers is $22.81 an hour. The quarters sit at $19.11 and $27.93, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers. The self-employed are excluded, so $47,450 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $47,450 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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