Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

At $49,590 against $50,020, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General sits $0.20 an hour under the typical American job. A gap that small is not a reason to choose it or to rule it out; the spread and the entry cost are where the real decision is.

At 1,529,700 workers, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General is one of the largest occupations in the country. Jobs at this scale are the labour market’s floor — always hiring, rarely bidding, and first to absorb people leaving somewhere else.

These maintenance roles suit diagnosticians: people who enjoy finding out why something failed and are unbothered by being called when it is already broken and someone is already angry.

No verified preparation time is on file for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General. 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.

From $40,840 to $62,620 is $1,815 a month, or 1.5x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.

The 25th percentile of $40,840 is only $9,180 off the $50,020 national midpoint. Being in the worst-paid quarter of Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 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. 1,529,700 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.

At 1.5x between $40,840 and $62,620 this is a normally shaped occupation. $49,590 is what the middle of Maintenance and Repair Workers, General earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

Put in money rather than ratios: $40,840 at the 25th percentile, $49,590 at the midpoint, $62,620 at the 75th. $21,780 separates the quarter of Maintenance and Repair Workers, General at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

The 75th percentile is $62,620. Reaching it from the $49,590 midpoint is $13,030 a year; reaching it from the $40,840 that the bottom quarter of Maintenance and Repair Workers, General earn is $21,780.

The climb from $49,590 to $62,620 is $13,030, against $8,750 down to $40,840. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Maintenance and Repair Workers, General is larger than the realistic downside.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $19.63 at the bottom quarter, $23.84 at the midpoint, $30.10 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.