Occupation / job
Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
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 $57,550 midpoint sits $3.62 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 15% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians.
23,220 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.
Vehicle and equipment mechanics suit people who like diagnosis with an immediate test — the machine either runs afterwards or it does not, and there is no arguing with it.
No verified preparation time is on file for Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians. 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
The middle half runs $46,750 to $66,620 — $1,655 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.
At $46,750 — $22.47 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians still means being paid like the average American worker.
Avoid it if flat-rate pay would frustrate you — being paid the book time rather than the actual time cuts both ways.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 23,220 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 $46,750 and $66,620, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians is the cost of living where you do it.
The middle half of this field earns between $46,750 and $66,620. That is $19,870 of range, with $57,550 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $46,750 and $66,620 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $57,550. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $9,070; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $19,870.
The fall from $57,550 to the $46,750 bottom quarter is $10,800; the climb to the $66,620 top quarter is $9,070. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $22.47 at the bottom quarter, $27.66 at the midpoint, $32.02 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
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians. The self-employed are excluded, so $57,550 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $57,550 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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