Occupation / job
Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers
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
$109,910 is $4,990 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.
With 23,790 employed as Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
These construction-adjacent roles suit people who want site work organised around a specific competence — an inspection, a hazard, a system — rather than around one of the classic trades.
No verified preparation time is on file for Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
$56,430 separates the bottom quarter of Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers at $79,290 from the top quarter at $135,720. At a 1.7x ratio the midpoint is a weak guide to your own first year — find out which end you would be entering at.
The 25th percentile is $79,290, $29,270 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 you need a broad employer base; these roles concentrate in a small number of firms.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 23,790 figure counts people already working as Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers, 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
From $79,290 to $135,720 at a ratio of 1.7x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $109,910 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.
In cash terms the middle half of Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers runs $79,290 to $135,720 — $56,430 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $109,910.
Getting to $135,720, the 75th percentile, is worth $25,810 a year more than the $109,910 midpoint and $56,430 more than the $79,290 a quarter of Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers settle for.
The fall from $109,910 to the $79,290 bottom quarter is $30,620; the climb to the $135,720 top quarter is $25,810. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $52.84 at the midpoint for Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers, $38.12 at the 25th percentile and $65.25 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $109,910 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
The hourly number on this page is $109,910 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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