First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers pays $79,860 at the midpoint, 60% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.

617,500 people do this work. An occupation this large has a published, well-known going rate — which means less scope to be underpaid and less scope to negotiate above it.

Supervising maintenance suits people who can prioritise a queue of broken things by consequence rather than by who shouted, and defend that order afterwards.

We carry no verified training length for First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

$62,690 to $101,360 — 1.6x, or $3,222 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers is the bottom of it rather than the middle.

The bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers earns $62,690 or more — $12,670 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.

Avoid it if being escalated to at every hour would not suit you; the supervisor is the last call before the outage.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 617,500 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.

A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $79,860 as where you might be after years in First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers, and $62,690 as where you would start.

In cash terms the middle half of First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers runs $62,690 to $101,360 — $38,670 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $79,860.

Between $62,690 and $101,360 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $79,860. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $21,500; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $38,670.

The climb from $79,860 to $101,360 is $21,500; the drop to $62,690 is $17,170. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $38.39 at the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers, $30.13 at the 25th percentile and $48.73 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.