Tire Builders

A $57,390 midpoint puts Tire Builders $614 a month ahead of the $50,020 typical American job. Real, but small enough that a change of employer or metro would move it as much as the occupation itself does.

20,770 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Tire Builders becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.

These production roles suit people who value a fixed site, a defined task and hours that end when the shift does, and who are consistent over long repetitive runs.

We carry no verified training length for Tire Builders — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter of Tire Builders earn under $47,900 and a quarter over $64,380: 1.3x, and $16,480 between the ends. That is a narrow band — enough room to be paid better than average, not enough for the occupation to be a route to a materially different income.

At $47,900, or $23.02 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $2,120 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.

Avoid it if repetitive work over years would grind you down, which for many people it does.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 20,770 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.

At 1.3x between $47,900 and $64,380, this is a narrow distribution. $57,390 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.

The middle half of this field earns between $47,900 and $64,380. That is $16,480 of range, with $57,390 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Getting to $64,380, the 75th percentile, is worth $6,990 a year more than the $57,390 midpoint and $16,480 more than the $47,900 a quarter of Tire Builders settle for.

The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $9,490 above the $47,900 bottom quarter but only $6,990 below the $64,380 top quarter. Most of the distance in Tire Builders is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $27.59 at the midpoint for Tire Builders, $23.02 at the 25th percentile and $30.95 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.