Occupation / job
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators
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
$44,650 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint puts Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators $447 a month below the middle of the American labour market — close enough that the spread below matters more to your outcome than the headline does.
With 1,405,030 employed, this is one of the biggest occupations in the country. Work at this scale is always available and rarely scarce, and the wage on this page is what that combination produces.
Assembly and fabrication suit people who are consistent over long runs and who value predictable hours, a fixed site and a defined task set.
We carry no verified training length for Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators earn under $37,380 and a quarter over $51,200 — 1.4x, or $13,820 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
A quarter of Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators earn under $37,380, which is $12,640 short of the $50,020 national midpoint. Assume you start there and check whether the arithmetic still works.
Avoid it if you need variety in the task, or would be unable to move should the plant close.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 1,405,030 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
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $44,650 is a genuinely representative number for Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators and the main variable left is where you live.
Put in money rather than ratios: $37,380 at the 25th percentile, $44,650 at the midpoint, $51,200 at the 75th. $13,820 separates the quarter of Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $51,200, the 75th percentile, is worth $6,550 a year more than the $44,650 midpoint and $13,820 more than the $37,380 a quarter of Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators settle for.
There is $7,270 between $37,380 and $44,650, and $6,550 between $44,650 and $51,200. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators at the bottom of it.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $17.97 at the bottom quarter, $21.46 at the midpoint, $24.61 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $44,650 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators, the hourly figure is $44,650 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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