Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
What the pay figures show
- Oregon pays this job the most on paper: $131,050. Two things happen before that money is yours. State tax takes a share, which puts Washington in front. Then local prices decide what is left, and Idaho wins at $95,382. The best offer and the best deal are not the same place.
- For electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay, Oregon's $131,050 median leads nominally and survives neither adjustment. State income tax differentials alone are sufficient to promote Washington; regional price parity then promotes Idaho, whose $95,382 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
$103,020
People doing it
20,720
Highest paid
$131,050
OR
Best off, really
$95,382
ID, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$65,730
Highest tenth
$129,920
Lowest, really
$62,255
AZ
States with data
48
National average
$100,760
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
91.42%
ID, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- The state you work in changes what this job pays, but less than you would expect. Level out tax and prices and the whole country sits between $62,255 and $95,382. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- Just 20,720 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- This job is not published everywhere — 48 jurisdictions have a figure, with $103,020 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Oregon tops the ones that are.
- Interstate variation for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $62,255 to $95,382. A differential of this magnitude is real but rarely decisive on its own, which is worth stating plainly against wage tables that present nominal gaps without either adjustment.
- 20,720 are employed nationally in electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- 48 jurisdictions carry a published median for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,730 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $103,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $129,920 |
| This salary | $103,020 |
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
$103,020around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $65,730 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $103,020 |
| Top tenth | $129,920 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay, state by state
The national median for this job
48states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Nevada · $74,360 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Oregon · $131,050 |
| Spread | $56,690 |
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 | $102,470 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $105,449 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | $119,170 | $87,203 | $95,382 |
| AK | $125,260 | $96,881 | $95,248 |
| SD | $101,830 | $80,467 | $91,342 |
| CO | $125,560 | $92,270 | $91,012 |
| WA | $125,620 | $97,127 | $89,467 |
| AR | $101,120 | $76,685 | $88,645 |
| UT | $114,250 | $84,121 | $88,546 |
| IN | $105,700 | $80,101 | $86,893 |
| NE | $104,850 | $78,525 | $86,887 |
| WI | $108,980 | $80,483 | $86,450 |
| OR | $131,050 | $89,884 | $85,832 |
| KS | $104,970 | $77,108 | $85,708 |
| MI | $106,600 | $79,543 | $84,455 |
| NM | $100,410 | $75,879 | $83,950 |
| NC | $104,710 | $78,824 | $83,732 |
| OK | $97,800 | $73,732 | $83,515 |
| TX | $102,470 | $80,918 | $83,270 |
| TN | $96,840 | $76,957 | $83,183 |
| OH | $98,700 | $76,268 | $83,069 |
| MD | $117,760 | $86,336 | $83,043 |
| KY | $98,860 | $75,036 | $82,941 |
| HI | $127,330 | $90,062 | $82,923 |
| MS | $94,970 | $71,935 | $82,407 |
| WV | $97,600 | $73,911 | $82,331 |
| GA | $106,930 | $79,318 | $82,026 |
| MT | $97,380 | $73,196 | $81,109 |
| VT | $105,640 | $78,286 | $81,012 |
| MA | $119,460 | $87,217 | $80,579 |
| IL | $107,470 | $79,260 | $80,178 |
| MO | $96,850 | $73,349 | $79,934 |
| RI | $107,980 | $81,017 | $79,889 |
| AL | $95,150 | $71,781 | $79,783 |
| PA | $101,660 | $77,227 | $79,207 |
| FL | $101,780 | $80,432 | $77,748 |
| CT | $109,610 | $80,614 | $77,746 |
| CA | $121,520 | $87,110 | $77,375 |
| NJ | $111,600 | $82,422 | $75,697 |
| IA | $86,490 | $67,001 | $75,480 |
| MN | $99,900 | $73,840 | $75,028 |
| SC | $91,140 | $69,220 | $74,289 |
| VA | $99,390 | $73,797 | $73,248 |
| LA | $80,610 | $63,507 | $71,885 |
| ME | $92,570 | $68,976 | $71,039 |
| ND | $75,050 | $61,423 | $69,349 |
| NY | $98,310 | $73,231 | $68,042 |
| NV | $74,360 | $61,142 | $63,046 |
| NH | $81,020 | $65,828 | $62,488 |
| AZ | $79,160 | $62,943 | $62,255 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $103,020, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Washington, at $97,127.
- 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 — Arizona sits at the bottom on $62,255.
- These are distribution medians for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay, with a national value of $103,020. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Retained-pay figures for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $97,127, which leads in Washington.
- The price deflation applied to electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay 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 Arizona at $62,255. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Arizona anchors the bottom at $62,255 — and the two source series are dated independently.