Occupation / job
Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and 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
A $63,520 midpoint puts Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers $13,500 above the $50,020 typical American job — a 27% premium paid for the training, the licence or the conditions. It is not free money and it disappears the moment you stop meeting the requirement.
11,140 people work as Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.
Electrical and electronic repair suits people who enjoy fault-finding on a system they did not build, using a diagram that is usually out of date.
No verified preparation time is on file for Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers. 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 below $50,580 and a quarter above $82,370: a 1.6x ratio, $31,790 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
The bottom quarter of Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers still clears $50,580 — $560 above the $50,020 typical job. A high floor is the most valuable and least advertised property an occupation can have.
Avoid it if you need documentation to be accurate — much of this work is on equipment nobody kept records for.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 11,140 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 1.6x between $50,580 and $82,370 this is a normally shaped occupation. $63,520 is what the middle of Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
Put in money rather than ratios: $50,580 at the 25th percentile, $63,520 at the midpoint, $82,370 at the 75th. $31,790 separates the quarter of Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $82,370, the 75th percentile, is worth $18,850 a year more than the $63,520 midpoint and $31,790 more than the $50,580 a quarter of Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers settle for.
The climb from $63,520 to $82,370 is $18,850, against $12,940 down to $50,580. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers is larger than the realistic downside.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers is $30.53 an hour. The quarters sit at $24.31 and $39.60, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
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 Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $63,520 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $63,520 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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