Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers

Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers pays $56,210 against $50,020 across all occupations, which is $515 a month ahead. A modest premium, and modest premiums are usually attached to modest requirements — check what this one is attached to.

Nationally 14,450 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.

Electrical and electronic repair suits people who enjoy fault-finding on a system they did not build, using a diagram that is usually out of date.

How long it takes to become one of the 14,450 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.

From $45,190 to $69,090 is $1,991 a month, or 1.5x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.

At $45,190, or $21.72 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $4,830 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.

Avoid it if working live or at height is not a risk you are prepared to carry routinely.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 14,450 people employed as Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

At 1.5x between $45,190 and $69,090 this is a normally shaped occupation. $56,210 is what the middle of Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

Put in money rather than ratios: $45,190 at the 25th percentile, $56,210 at the midpoint, $69,090 at the 75th. $23,900 separates the quarter of Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Between $45,190 and $69,090 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $56,210. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $12,880; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $23,900.

From $56,210 it is $11,020 down to the bottom quarter and $12,880 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $27.02 at the midpoint for Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers, $21.72 at the 25th percentile and $33.21 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.