Occupation / job
Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
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
Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door pays $74,340 at the midpoint, 49% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
48,240 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door is still a distinguishing thing to have.
This work suits people who like variety in the fault rather than variety in the setting, and who would rather fix than build.
How long it takes to become one of the 48,240 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
A quarter of the field earns under $54,950 and a quarter over $97,120: $42,170 between them, a ratio of 1.8x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.
The bottom quarter of Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door still clears $54,950 — $4,930 above the $50,020 typical job. A high floor is the most valuable and least advertised property an occupation can have.
Avoid it if you need to be off duty; this is a category of work that gets called at inconvenient hours by definition.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 48,240 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 1.8x, the distribution for Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $54,950 to $97,120 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.
Put in money rather than ratios: $54,950 at the 25th percentile, $74,340 at the midpoint, $97,120 at the 75th. $42,170 separates the quarter of Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $97,120. Reaching it from the $74,340 midpoint is $22,780 a year; reaching it from the $54,950 that the bottom quarter of Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door earn is $42,170.
From $74,340 it is $19,390 down to the bottom quarter and $22,780 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $26.41 at the bottom quarter, $35.74 at the midpoint, $46.69 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 Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $74,340 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $74,340 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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