Occupation / job
Medical Equipment 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
The $61,660 midpoint sits $5.59 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 23% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Medical Equipment Repairers.
Employment stands at 65,990. Medical Equipment Repairers is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.
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.
How long it takes to become one of the 65,990 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
From $47,470 to $78,500 is $2,585 a month, or 1.7x 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 bottom quarter of Medical Equipment Repairers earns under $47,470, which is within $2,550 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if you would find it demoralising to arrive only when something has already failed.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 65,990 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
A 1.7x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $61,660 as where you might be after years in Medical Equipment Repairers, and $47,470 as where you would start.
In cash terms the middle half of Medical Equipment Repairers runs $47,470 to $78,500 — $31,030 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $61,660.
Getting to $78,500, the 75th percentile, is worth $16,840 a year more than the $61,660 midpoint and $31,030 more than the $47,470 a quarter of Medical Equipment Repairers settle for.
The climb from $61,660 to $78,500 is $16,840; the drop to $47,470 is $14,190. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Medical Equipment 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 $29.64 at the midpoint for Medical Equipment Repairers, $22.82 at the 25th percentile and $37.74 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $61,660 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 $61,660 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Medical Equipment Repairers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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