Occupation / job
Home Appliance 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
Home Appliance Repairers pays $50,990 at the midpoint against $50,020 across all occupations. The headline argues neither for nor against it; the case has to be made on the spread, the entry cost and what the day is actually like.
At 32,150 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.
These roles suit people who want to be the one who keeps things running, in work where competence is obvious to everyone around you within about a week.
No verified preparation time is on file for Home Appliance 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
Between $43,780 and $63,390 there is $19,610, 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 25th percentile of $43,780 is only $6,240 off the $50,020 national midpoint. Being in the worst-paid quarter of Home Appliance Repairers still means being paid close to what the average American job pays.
Avoid it if being on call, or being the person who arrives after something has already gone wrong, would wear on you.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 32,150 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
$43,780 to $63,390 is a 1.4x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.
The middle half of this field earns between $43,780 and $63,390. That is $19,610 of range, with $50,990 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $63,390, the 75th percentile, is worth $12,400 a year more than the $50,990 midpoint and $19,610 more than the $43,780 a quarter of Home Appliance Repairers settle for.
The distance from the midpoint up to $63,390 is $12,400 — well over the $7,210 down to $43,780. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Home Appliance Repairers earns, and half the field is in that upper half.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Home Appliance Repairers is $24.51 an hour. The quarters sit at $21.04 and $30.47, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Home Appliance Repairers. The self-employed are excluded, so $50,990 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $50,990 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Home Appliance Repairers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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