Occupation / job
Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers
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 $60,070 midpoint sits $4.83 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 20% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers.
Employment stands at 86,340. Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.
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electronic repair suits people who enjoy fault-finding on a system they did not build, using a diagram that is usually out of date.
We carry no verified training length for Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
$47,820 to $73,690 — 1.5x, or $2,155 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
The bottom quarter of Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers earns under $47,820, which is within $2,200 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if working live or at height is not a risk you are prepared to carry routinely.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 86,340 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
1.5x between $47,820 and $73,690 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $60,070 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.
Put in money rather than ratios: $47,820 at the 25th percentile, $60,070 at the midpoint, $73,690 at the 75th. $25,870 separates the quarter of Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Between $47,820 and $73,690 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $60,070. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $13,620; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $25,870.
$60,070 sits almost exactly in the middle of its own range — $12,250 above the bottom quarter, $13,620 below the top one. A symmetric distribution like this is the case where the median genuinely does describe the typical person.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $28.87 at the midpoint for Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers, $22.99 at the 25th percentile and $35.42 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 Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $60,070 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $60,070 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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