Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
What the pay figures show
- A job board will not tell you this about this job. The best headline number is Connecticut, at $74,890. State taxes differ, so Washington leaves you more. Prices differ too, so Iowa leaves you better off again — $58,673 once levelled out. Moving for the biggest salary can leave you worse off.
- Wage data for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers places Connecticut first at $74,890. That position is not robust: state income tax alone reorders it to Washington, and regional price parity reorders it again to Iowa at $58,673. Because published comparisons almost universally stop at the nominal median, the state that appears best for this occupation is routinely not the state where a worker's income goes furthest.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$52,600
People doing it
19,780
Highest paid
$74,890
CT
Best off, really
$58,673
IA, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$36,760
Highest tenth
$84,190
Lowest, really
$31,852
WY
States with data
45
National average
$57,930
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.77%
IA, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Geography does a lot of the work in this job. Pay roughly doubles between the lowest state and the highest. Tax and prices narrow that gap. They come nowhere near closing it — the real range is still $31,852 up to $58,673.
- Only 19,780 people do this job in the whole country. It is a small field, so the pay figures rest on fewer reports.
- This job is not published everywhere — 45 jurisdictions have a figure, with $52,600 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Connecticut tops the ones that are.
- The nominal spread for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers approaches a factor of two across states. Deflating for tax and price level compresses it substantially but leaves a real range of $31,852 to $58,673, indicating that most of the dispersion is real purchasing power rather than compensation for local costs.
- National employment in audiovisual equipment installers and repairers is 19,780. ⚠️ At this headcount the state-level medians rest on comparatively thin samples, and year-to-year movement in any one state reflects sampling as much as wages.
- 45 jurisdictions carry a published median for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $84,190 |
| This salary | $52,600 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
The national median for this job
$52,600around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $36,760 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $52,600 |
| Top tenth | $84,190 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers, state by state
The national median for this job
45states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Wyoming · $33,300 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Connecticut · $74,890 |
| Spread | $41,590 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $47,770 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $49,159 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| IA | $64,390 | $52,082 | $58,673 |
| CT | $74,890 | $58,146 | $56,077 |
| DE | $69,990 | $54,680 | $55,091 |
| MT | $60,900 | $49,008 | $54,306 |
| WA | $70,720 | $58,582 | $53,961 |
| IL | $62,870 | $49,729 | $50,305 |
| NH | $62,810 | $52,648 | $49,977 |
| ID | $56,690 | $45,579 | $49,854 |
| MD | $65,160 | $51,805 | $49,829 |
| LA | $53,320 | $43,809 | $49,589 |
| ND | $50,890 | $43,070 | $48,627 |
| CO | $57,680 | $46,696 | $46,060 |
| NY | $62,380 | $49,531 | $46,021 |
| MO | $50,540 | $41,351 | $45,063 |
| CA | $62,390 | $50,374 | $44,745 |
| UT | $53,080 | $42,468 | $44,702 |
| VA | $56,310 | $44,948 | $44,614 |
| KS | $50,130 | $39,951 | $44,407 |
| MN | $54,330 | $43,663 | $44,365 |
| AR | $46,530 | $38,304 | $44,278 |
| OK | $47,880 | $38,997 | $44,172 |
| TN | $48,010 | $40,756 | $44,053 |
| OH | $48,130 | $40,245 | $43,834 |
| KY | $48,380 | $39,478 | $43,637 |
| OR | $59,890 | $45,611 | $43,555 |
| PA | $51,010 | $41,601 | $42,667 |
| NV | $48,750 | $41,351 | $42,638 |
| WI | $48,300 | $39,461 | $42,387 |
| AL | $46,770 | $37,758 | $41,967 |
| GA | $50,090 | $40,527 | $41,910 |
| NM | $45,580 | $37,811 | $41,833 |
| TX | $47,770 | $40,563 | $41,742 |
| DC | $57,620 | $46,179 | $41,676 |
| IN | $46,450 | $38,162 | $41,397 |
| MA | $56,040 | $44,726 | $41,322 |
| FL | $49,780 | $42,178 | $40,771 |
| SC | $45,180 | $37,802 | $40,570 |
| MS | $41,920 | $34,278 | $39,268 |
| MI | $45,400 | $36,980 | $39,264 |
| NC | $44,490 | $36,661 | $38,944 |
| SD | $38,860 | $33,404 | $37,918 |
| AZ | $45,400 | $37,926 | $37,512 |
| NJ | $48,780 | $40,227 | $36,946 |
| NE | $39,940 | $33,158 | $36,689 |
| WY | $33,300 | $28,937 | $31,852 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $52,600 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Washington, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $58,582.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Wyoming sits at the bottom on $31,852.
- All wage figures for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $52,600. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- Take-home calculations for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $58,582, in Washington. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- The price deflation applied to audiovisual equipment installers and repairers uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Wyoming at $31,852. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Wyoming anchors the bottom at $31,852 — and the two source series are dated independently.