Occupation / job
Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, 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
Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other pays $68,990 at the midpoint, 38% 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 9,400 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
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.
No verified preparation time is on file for Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, 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
From $51,070 to $84,390 is $2,776 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 25th percentile is $51,070, $1,050 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 you need to be off duty; this is a category of work that gets called at inconvenient hours by definition.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 9,400 people employed as Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
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 $68,990 as where you might be after years in Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other, and $51,070 as where you would start.
In cash terms the middle half of Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other runs $51,070 to $84,390 — $33,320 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $68,990.
The 75th percentile is $84,390. Reaching it from the $68,990 midpoint is $15,400 a year; reaching it from the $51,070 that the bottom quarter of Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other earn is $33,320.
The fall from $68,990 to the $51,070 bottom quarter is $17,920; the climb to the $84,390 top quarter is $15,400. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $33.16 at the midpoint for Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other, $24.55 at the 25th percentile and $40.57 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
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 Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $68,990 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $68,990 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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