Occupation / job
Recreational Vehicle 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
$52,000 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $1,980 apart. Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians pays what the average job pays, so the decision has to be made on the work, the entry cost and the spread rather than on the wage.
Nationally 17,430 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
This work suits people who want a trade with immediate feedback and a customer who can see the result, and who do not mind being dirty at the end of the day.
How long it takes to become one of the 17,430 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
A quarter of Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians earn under $44,920 and a quarter over $63,890 — 1.4x, or $18,970 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
At $44,920, or $21.59 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $5,100 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.
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. 17,430 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 $44,920 and $63,890, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians is the cost of living where you do it.
The middle half of this field earns between $44,920 and $63,890. That is $18,970 of range, with $52,000 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $63,890, the 75th percentile, is worth $11,890 a year more than the $52,000 midpoint and $18,970 more than the $44,920 a quarter of Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians settle for.
It is $7,080 from $52,000 down to $44,920 but $11,890 up to $63,890. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $25.00 at the midpoint for Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians, $21.59 at the 25th percentile and $30.71 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 Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $52,000 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $52,000 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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