Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers

A midpoint of $74,330 against $50,020 means Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers pays $2,025 a month more than the typical American job. At that distance the entry requirement is the real subject, because it is what the premium is buying.

97,720 people are employed as Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers. 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.

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.

We carry no verified training length for Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

The quarters sit at $54,310 and $95,850 — 1.8x, or $3,461 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.

The bottom quarter of Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers still clears $54,310 — $4,290 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 to be off duty; this is a category of work that gets called at inconvenient hours by definition.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 97,720 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.

From $54,310 to $95,850 at a ratio of 1.8x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $74,330 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.

The middle half of this field earns between $54,310 and $95,850. That is $41,540 of range, with $74,330 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $54,310 and $95,850 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $74,330. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $21,520; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $41,540.

$74,330 sits almost exactly in the middle of its own range — $20,020 above the bottom quarter, $21,520 below the top one. A symmetric distribution like this is the case where the median genuinely does describe the typical person.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $26.11 at the bottom quarter, $35.73 at the midpoint, $46.08 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.