Occupation / job
Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other
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
Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other pays $70,720 at the midpoint, 41% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
Nationally 12,450 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
These roles suit people who want a technical craft attached to a creative industry, and who are content that the credit for the result goes elsewhere.
No verified preparation time is on file for Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other. 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
A quarter earn under $49,340, a quarter over $106,780: $4,786 a month between them at a 2.2x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other actually earn.
The 25th percentile is $49,340, $680 above the $50,020 typical American job. A floor above the national midpoint is rare, and it is worth more than an equivalent amount of upside.
Avoid it if unsociable hours would not work — the production schedule is not yours to set.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 12,450 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
At 2.2x the range from $49,340 to $106,780 is doing more explaining than the job title is. Something sorts people across that distance — sector, speciality, or who employs them — and finding out what it is matters more than the $70,720 midpoint.
Put in money rather than ratios: $49,340 at the 25th percentile, $70,720 at the midpoint, $106,780 at the 75th. $57,440 separates the quarter of Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Between $49,340 and $106,780 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $70,720. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $36,060; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $57,440.
It is $21,380 from $70,720 down to $49,340 but $36,060 up to $106,780. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other is $34.00 an hour. The quarters sit at $23.72 and $51.33, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $70,720 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.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $70,720 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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