Occupation / job
Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service 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
Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians pays $56,550 against $50,020 across all occupations, which is $544 a month ahead. A modest premium, and modest premiums are usually attached to modest requirements — check what this one is attached to.
At 37,870 employed, this is a mid-sized occupation. In a normal city that means several possible employers and a genuine market rate, which is the point at which knowing the numbers on this page starts to be worth money.
Vehicle and equipment mechanics suit people who like diagnosis with an immediate test — the machine either runs afterwards or it does not, and there is no arguing with it.
We carry no verified training length for Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
Between $46,450 and $65,580 there is $19,130, a ratio of 1.4x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.
The bottom quarter of Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians earns under $46,450, which is within $3,570 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if flat-rate pay would frustrate you — being paid the book time rather than the actual time cuts both ways.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 37,870 people employed as Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians; 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 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $56,550 is a genuinely representative number for Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians and the main variable left is where you live.
The middle half of this field earns between $46,450 and $65,580. That is $19,130 of range, with $56,550 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $65,580, the 75th percentile, is worth $9,030 a year more than the $56,550 midpoint and $19,130 more than the $46,450 a quarter of Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians settle for.
The fall from $56,550 to the $46,450 bottom quarter is $10,100; the climb to the $65,580 top quarter is $9,030. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians is $27.18 an hour. The quarters sit at $22.33 and $31.52, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $56,550 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $56,550 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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