Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers

A $47,810 median against $50,020 across all occupations puts Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers within $184 a month of the exact middle of the American labour market. Nothing in the headline number argues either way.

65,600 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers is still a distinguishing thing to have.

These roles suit people who like electrical fault work — a discipline where the answer exists, is findable, and is usually somewhere nobody looked.

We carry no verified training length for Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

$38,900 to $59,870 — 1.5x, or $1,747 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers is the bottom of it rather than the middle.

A quarter of the field earns under $38,900 — $11,120 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 you need documentation to be accurate — much of this work is on equipment nobody kept records for.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 65,600 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.

At 1.5x between $38,900 and $59,870 this is a normally shaped occupation. $47,810 is what the middle of Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

In cash terms the middle half of Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers runs $38,900 to $59,870 — $20,970 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $47,810.

The 75th percentile is $59,870. Reaching it from the $47,810 midpoint is $12,060 a year; reaching it from the $38,900 that the bottom quarter of Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers earn is $20,970.

The climb from $47,810 to $59,870 is $12,060, against $8,910 down to $38,900. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers is larger than the realistic downside.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $22.98 at the midpoint for Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, $18.70 at the 25th percentile and $28.78 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.