Occupation / job
Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
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
At $73,900 against a $50,020 midpoint, Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians pays $23,880 a year more than the typical American job — $11.48 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.
Employment as Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians is 15,520 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.
Technician and drafting roles suit people who want the technical work without the liability of the stamp, and who are good at being exactly right about details someone else specified.
How long it takes to become one of the 15,520 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 $59,780 and $88,540 there is $28,760, 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.
Even the bottom quarter of Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians earns $59,780 — $28.74 an hour and $9,760 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Very little of this distribution is badly paid.
Avoid it if you would find it frustrating to execute someone else’s design decisions without the authority to change them.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 15,520 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
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.5x. In a band that narrow, $73,900 is a genuinely representative number for Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians and the main variable left is where you live.
In cash terms the middle half of Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians runs $59,780 to $88,540 — $28,760 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $73,900.
Getting to $88,540, the 75th percentile, is worth $14,640 a year more than the $73,900 midpoint and $28,760 more than the $59,780 a quarter of Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians settle for.
$14,120 down to $59,780, $14,640 up to $88,540: the midpoint of Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians is centred in its own middle half. That symmetry is why the median and the average would say much the same thing here, which is not true of most pages on this site.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $35.52 at the midpoint for Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians, $28.74 at the 25th percentile and $42.56 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 Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians. The self-employed are excluded, so $73,900 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $73,900 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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