Occupation / job
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
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
$103,020 is $4,416 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.
With 20,720 employed as Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
These roles suit people who like electrical fault work — a discipline where the answer exists, is findable, and is usually somewhere nobody looked.
How long it takes to become one of the 20,720 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
Between $81,860 and $118,870 there is $37,010, a ratio of 1.5x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.
The 25th percentile is $81,860, $31,840 above the $50,020 typical American job. When even the floor is this high, the thing to investigate is the entry requirement rather than the pay.
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 20,720 people employed as Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay; 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
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.5x. In a band that narrow, $103,020 is a genuinely representative number for Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay and the main variable left is where you live.
Put in money rather than ratios: $81,860 at the 25th percentile, $103,020 at the midpoint, $118,870 at the 75th. $37,010 separates the quarter of Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Between $81,860 and $118,870 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $103,020. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $15,850; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $37,010.
Getting from $81,860 to the $103,020 midpoint is $21,160; getting from there to $118,870 is only $15,850. The hard part of the range is the lower half, which is also the half a newcomer starts in.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $49.52 at the midpoint for Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay, $39.35 at the 25th percentile and $57.14 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay. The self-employed are excluded, so $103,020 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay, the hourly figure is $103,020 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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