Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles

A $48,420 median against $50,020 across all occupations puts Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles within $133 a month of the exact middle of the American labour market. Nothing in the headline number argues either way.

8,550 people work as Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.

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 8,550 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.

A quarter of Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles earn under $43,310 and a quarter over $58,500 — 1.4x, or $15,190 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.

The 25th percentile of $43,310 is only $6,710 off the $50,020 national midpoint. Being in the worst-paid quarter of Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles still means being paid close to what the average American job pays.

Avoid it if you need documentation to be accurate — much of this work is on equipment nobody kept records for.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 8,550 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.

The quarters are $43,310 and $58,500, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles is the cost of living where you do it.

The middle half of this field earns between $43,310 and $58,500. That is $15,190 of range, with $48,420 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $43,310 and $58,500 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $48,420. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $10,080; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $15,190.

The upper half of the middle range — $48,420 to $58,500, or $10,080 — is far longer than the lower half at $5,110. In a shape like this an average would flatter Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles considerably, and would describe nobody.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles is $23.27 an hour. The quarters sit at $20.82 and $28.12, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.