Occupation / job
Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line 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
A $63,890 midpoint puts Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers $13,870 above the $50,020 typical American job — a 28% 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.
140,920 people are employed as Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.
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electronic repair suits people who enjoy fault-finding on a system they did not build, using a diagram that is usually out of date.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 Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $51,830 and a quarter above $81,690: a 1.6x ratio, $29,860 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 25th percentile is $51,830, $1,810 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 working live or at height is not a risk you are prepared to carry routinely.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 140,920 figure counts people already working as Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
At 1.6x between $51,830 and $81,690 this is a normally shaped occupation. $63,890 is what the middle of Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
In cash terms the middle half of Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers runs $51,830 to $81,690 — $29,860 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $63,890.
Getting to $81,690, the 75th percentile, is worth $17,800 a year more than the $63,890 midpoint and $29,860 more than the $51,830 a quarter of Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers settle for.
The climb from $63,890 to $81,690 is $17,800, against $12,060 down to $51,830. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers is larger than the realistic downside.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $30.71 at the midpoint for Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers, $24.91 at the 25th percentile and $39.27 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $63,890 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers, the hourly figure is $63,890 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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