Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
What the pay figures show
- Rhode Island pays this job the most on paper: $110,900. Two things happen before that money is yours. State tax takes a share, which puts Alaska in front. Then local prices decide what is left, and North Dakota wins at $91,381. The best offer and the best deal are not the same place.
- For control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door, Rhode Island's $110,900 median leads nominally and survives neither adjustment. State income tax differentials alone are sufficient to promote Alaska; regional price parity then promotes North Dakota, whose $91,381 real figure is the highest purchasing power available in this occupation. Nominal wage comparisons across states are therefore a poor guide to relocation, and the error compounds rather than cancels.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$74,340
People doing it
48,240
Highest paid
$110,900
RI
Best off, really
$91,381
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$45,910
Highest tenth
$112,500
Lowest, really
$45,017
SC
States with data
51
National average
$76,210
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Where you do this job matters enormously. The best state pays roughly twice what the worst does. Prices alone cannot explain a gap that size. Level everything out and the range still runs $45,017 to $91,381.
- Just 48,240 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- Coverage is complete — all 51 jurisdictions publish this, on a middle wage of $74,340. Nothing is missing.
- Geographic dispersion in control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door is unusually wide: the top state's median is approximately double the bottom's, a spread that price differentials cannot account for. The real-terms range, after tax and price deflation, still runs $45,017 to $91,381 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- 48,240 are employed nationally in control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- Coverage for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door is complete at 51 jurisdictions. No suppression applies, so the highest and lowest figures above are genuinely the national extremes.
Pay band: Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,910 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,340 |
| Top tenth earn over | $112,500 |
| This salary | $74,340 |
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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The national median for this job
$74,340around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $45,910 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $74,340 |
| Top tenth | $112,500 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $48,670 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Rhode Island · $110,900 |
| Spread | $62,230 |
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 | $58,230 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $59,923 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $103,580 | $80,938 | $91,381 |
| SD | $98,090 | $77,836 | $88,355 |
| WY | $100,030 | $79,201 | $87,180 |
| AK | $109,450 | $85,828 | $84,381 |
| RI | $110,900 | $82,933 | $81,778 |
| MI | $96,890 | $73,125 | $77,641 |
| NE | $88,610 | $67,839 | $75,063 |
| WA | $102,870 | $81,199 | $74,795 |
| CT | $104,690 | $77,448 | $74,693 |
| IA | $83,830 | $65,231 | $73,485 |
| ID | $84,390 | $64,579 | $70,636 |
| NY | $101,150 | $75,061 | $69,743 |
| WV | $79,000 | $61,677 | $68,704 |
| OH | $76,920 | $61,544 | $67,033 |
| NJ | $96,510 | $72,767 | $66,830 |
| MO | $77,650 | $60,745 | $66,198 |
| MA | $95,520 | $71,572 | $66,125 |
| KS | $77,720 | $59,458 | $66,090 |
| OR | $97,110 | $69,200 | $66,080 |
| CA | $100,260 | $74,131 | $65,847 |
| DC | $98,810 | $72,912 | $65,803 |
| VT | $82,010 | $63,222 | $65,423 |
| WI | $76,540 | $59,587 | $64,005 |
| PA | $78,120 | $61,389 | $62,963 |
| NV | $72,310 | $59,700 | $61,559 |
| LA | $66,730 | $54,159 | $61,304 |
| NM | $67,520 | $54,323 | $60,101 |
| MN | $76,640 | $59,058 | $60,008 |
| UT | $73,090 | $56,996 | $59,995 |
| DE | $75,720 | $58,333 | $58,772 |
| AR | $61,440 | $49,732 | $57,489 |
| OK | $62,780 | $50,299 | $56,973 |
| HI | $81,850 | $61,634 | $56,749 |
| NC | $64,820 | $52,185 | $55,434 |
| KY | $61,450 | $49,522 | $54,740 |
| AL | $61,670 | $49,074 | $54,545 |
| ME | $66,240 | $52,253 | $53,815 |
| VA | $68,000 | $53,519 | $53,121 |
| IN | $60,170 | $48,781 | $52,917 |
| MT | $58,940 | $47,525 | $52,663 |
| TN | $57,010 | $47,988 | $51,870 |
| MD | $66,500 | $52,818 | $50,803 |
| CO | $63,770 | $51,322 | $50,622 |
| GA | $61,070 | $48,801 | $50,467 |
| TX | $58,230 | $48,968 | $50,391 |
| IL | $61,980 | $49,058 | $49,626 |
| AZ | $60,570 | $49,736 | $49,193 |
| NH | $61,380 | $51,499 | $48,886 |
| FL | $57,460 | $48,349 | $46,736 |
| MS | $48,670 | $39,432 | $45,172 |
| SC | $50,800 | $41,945 | $45,017 |
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 $74,340 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 Alaska, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $85,828.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits South Carolina, on $45,017.
- All wage figures for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $74,340. 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 control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door 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 $85,828, in Alaska. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- Real-terms results for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; South Carolina anchors the distribution at $45,017. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.