Occupation / job
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
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
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers pays $45,990 where the typical job pays $50,020 — $1.93 an hour apart. That is close enough to average that the interesting numbers on this page are the percentiles, not the median.
National employment of 3,020 makes this a small field. Small fields are relationship markets: the people already in Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers tend to know who is hiring before the posting exists.
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.
We carry no verified training length for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
Between $35,800 and $51,970 there is $16,170, a ratio of 1.5x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.
A quarter of the field earns under $35,800 — $14,220 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if you need to be off duty; this is a category of work that gets called at inconvenient hours by definition.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 3,020 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
The quarters are $35,800 and $51,970, a ratio of 1.5x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers is the cost of living where you do it.
In cash terms the middle half of Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers runs $35,800 to $51,970 — $16,170 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $45,990.
Getting to $51,970, the 75th percentile, is worth $5,980 a year more than the $45,990 midpoint and $16,170 more than the $35,800 a quarter of Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers settle for.
The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $10,190 above the $35,800 bottom quarter but only $5,980 below the $51,970 top quarter. Most of the distance in Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $22.11 at the midpoint for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers, $17.21 at the 25th percentile and $24.98 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $45,990 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 $45,990 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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