Occupation / job
Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment
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
$84,890 is $2,905 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.
National employment of 6,940 makes this a small field. Small fields are relationship markets: the people already in Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment tend to know who is hiring before the posting exists.
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electronic repair suits people who enjoy fault-finding on a system they did not build, using a diagram that is usually out of date.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 6,940 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 earn below $63,560 and a quarter above $98,850: a 1.6x ratio, $35,290 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
Even the bottom quarter of Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment earns $63,560 — $30.55 an hour and $13,540 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.
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 6,940 people employed as Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment; 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.
What the spread tells you
At 1.6x between $63,560 and $98,850 this is a normally shaped occupation. $84,890 is what the middle of Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment 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 Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment runs $63,560 to $98,850 — $35,290 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $84,890.
Between $63,560 and $98,850 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $84,890. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $13,960; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $35,290.
Getting from $63,560 to the $84,890 midpoint is $21,330; getting from there to $98,850 is only $13,960. The hard part of the range is the lower half, which is also the half a newcomer starts in.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment is $40.81 an hour. The quarters sit at $30.55 and $47.52, 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 Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment. The self-employed are excluded, so $84,890 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $84,890 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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