Occupation / job
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
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
$45,850 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint puts Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers $347 a month below the middle of the American labour market — close enough that the spread below matters more to your outcome than the headline does.
National employment is 246,970. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
Assembly and fabrication suit people who are consistent over long runs and who value predictable hours, a fixed site and a defined task set.
We carry no verified training length for Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $38,380 and $51,670, $1,107 a month apart at a ratio of 1.3x. Narrow enough that what you can expect is close to what everyone else gets.
A quarter of the field earns under $38,380 — $11,640 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 a role that is not directly exposed to automation and offshoring.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 246,970 figure counts people already working as Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A 1.3x spread means the top quarter of Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers is not doing a different job from the bottom quarter, just a slightly better-paid version of the same one. Between $38,380 and $51,670 is the whole of the negotiation.
In cash terms the middle half of Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers runs $38,380 to $51,670 — $13,290 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $45,850.
Getting to $51,670, the 75th percentile, is worth $5,820 a year more than the $45,850 midpoint and $13,290 more than the $38,380 a quarter of Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers settle for.
There is $7,470 between $38,380 and $45,850, and $5,820 between $45,850 and $51,670. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers at the bottom of it.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers is $22.04 an hour. The quarters sit at $18.45 and $24.84, 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, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers. The self-employed are excluded, so $45,850 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers, the hourly figure is $45,850 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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