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Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters

$62,620

Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.

$30.10

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.

$29,040–$72,740

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 $62,620 midpoint sits $6.05 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 25% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters.

Only 250 people in the United States are employed as Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters. At that scale the labour market barely functions as a market: postings are rare, concentrated in a few employers, and often filled by someone already known to them.

Assembly and fabrication suit people who are consistent over long runs and who value predictable hours, a fixed site and a defined task set.

We carry no verified training length for Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

Who should not do this

From under $29,040 to over $72,740 — $43,700 between the quarters, a 2.5x ratio. A range that wide is not one job with variation in it; it is a label covering several different jobs, and the entry-level version is the one you should cost.

The bottom quarter of Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters earns under $29,040 — $20,980 below the $50,020 national midpoint, or $13.96 an hour. A floor that low means the occupation cannot be judged on its median alone; a quarter of the people in it are somewhere else entirely.

Avoid it if you need variety in the task, or would be unable to move should the plant close.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 250 people employed as Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

What the spread tells you

A ratio of 2.5x between $29,040 and $72,740 means the top of this occupation and the bottom of it are barely the same labour market. $62,620 is arithmetically the middle and practically a description of very few people.

The middle half of this field earns between $29,040 and $72,740. That is $43,700 of range, with $62,620 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Getting to $72,740, the 75th percentile, is worth $10,120 a year more than the $62,620 midpoint and $43,700 more than the $29,040 a quarter of Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters settle for.

The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $33,580 above the $29,040 bottom quarter but only $10,120 below the $72,740 top quarter. Most of the distance in Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters is $30.10 an hour. The quarters sit at $13.96 and $34.97, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.

What these figures are, and what they are not

Employers reported these wages for people already working as Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters. The self-employed are excluded, so $62,620 does not describe an independent doing the same work.

With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters, the hourly figure is $62,620 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.

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