Home Appliance Repairers
What the pay figures show
- The pay leader for home appliance repairers is Massachusetts, at $70,750. Tax does not shift it. Prices are the twist. Adjust for what a basket costs and Alaska comes out ahead, worth $52,661. Worth knowing before anyone packs.
- Nominal and post-tax rankings agree for home appliance repairers: Massachusetts leads at $70,750 on both. Applying regional price parities separates them, promoting Alaska to $52,661 in real terms. Price level, not tax, is the operative variable for this occupation — and it is the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$50,990
People doing it
32,150
Highest paid
$70,750
MA
Best off, really
$52,661
AK, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$36,190
Highest tenth
$80,660
Lowest, really
$33,388
WV
States with data
50
National average
$56,040
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
101.72%
AK, 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 $33,388 up to $52,661.
- Only 32,150 people do this job in the whole country. It is a small field, so the pay figures rest on fewer reports.
- Not every state reports this one. The figures here cover 50 jurisdictions, and the middle wage across them is $50,990. A state you do not see is one with no published number, not one paying nothing. Of those published, Massachusetts pays most.
- The nominal spread for home appliance repairers approaches a factor of two across states. Deflating for tax and price level compresses it substantially but leaves a real range of $33,388 to $52,661, indicating that most of the dispersion is real purchasing power rather than compensation for local costs.
- National employment in home appliance repairers is 32,150. ⚠️ 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.
- BLS publishes an occupational median for home appliance repairers in 50 jurisdictions, short of the full set. ⚠️ Absence reflects estimate suppression — small samples or disclosure rules — rather than absence of employment, so the state comparison above is over the published subset.
Pay band: Home Appliance Repairers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,190 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,660 |
| This salary | $50,990 |
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 Home Appliance Repairers
The national median for this job
$50,990around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $36,190 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $50,990 |
| Top tenth | $80,660 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Home Appliance Repairers, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $35,720 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Massachusetts · $70,750 |
| Spread | $35,030 |
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 | $48,630 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $50,044 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AK | $63,950 | $53,564 | $52,661 |
| MA | $70,750 | $55,385 | $51,170 |
| MN | $61,360 | $48,834 | $49,619 |
| VT | $58,750 | $47,619 | $49,277 |
| NY | $65,190 | $51,637 | $47,978 |
| CT | $62,380 | $49,621 | $47,856 |
| VA | $59,820 | $47,566 | $47,213 |
| ND | $48,720 | $41,327 | $46,659 |
| FL | $57,280 | $48,204 | $46,596 |
| LA | $49,240 | $40,653 | $46,017 |
| WI | $52,440 | $42,584 | $45,741 |
| IL | $56,860 | $45,197 | $45,721 |
| SD | $47,340 | $40,218 | $45,653 |
| TN | $49,580 | $42,018 | $45,417 |
| WA | $58,110 | $48,871 | $45,017 |
| AL | $50,190 | $40,355 | $44,854 |
| KY | $49,710 | $40,500 | $44,767 |
| MI | $52,160 | $42,125 | $44,726 |
| MD | $57,860 | $46,286 | $44,521 |
| PA | $51,990 | $42,358 | $43,444 |
| MO | $48,530 | $39,830 | $43,406 |
| OH | $47,300 | $39,601 | $43,133 |
| DE | $53,390 | $42,683 | $43,004 |
| NH | $53,640 | $45,280 | $42,982 |
| MT | $47,130 | $38,591 | $42,762 |
| TX | $48,630 | $41,254 | $42,454 |
| HI | $58,300 | $46,036 | $42,387 |
| SC | $47,460 | $39,483 | $42,374 |
| CA | $58,480 | $47,467 | $42,163 |
| NV | $48,070 | $40,804 | $42,075 |
| CO | $52,220 | $42,549 | $41,969 |
| IN | $47,080 | $38,649 | $41,926 |
| UT | $49,350 | $39,637 | $41,722 |
| NJ | $55,450 | $45,218 | $41,529 |
| NE | $45,620 | $37,464 | $41,453 |
| GA | $49,500 | $40,082 | $41,450 |
| NC | $47,270 | $38,784 | $41,199 |
| IA | $44,090 | $36,543 | $41,167 |
| WY | $43,630 | $37,237 | $40,988 |
| ID | $45,650 | $37,294 | $40,791 |
| RI | $50,170 | $41,030 | $40,459 |
| AZ | $47,800 | $39,795 | $39,360 |
| ME | $46,500 | $37,724 | $38,852 |
| OR | $51,160 | $39,361 | $37,586 |
| OK | $40,210 | $33,180 | $37,582 |
| AR | $38,680 | $32,287 | $37,322 |
| KS | $38,840 | $31,509 | $35,024 |
| NM | $37,440 | $31,620 | $34,984 |
| MS | $35,890 | $29,674 | $33,994 |
| WV | $35,720 | $29,973 | $33,388 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of home appliance repairers earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $50,990.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for home appliance repairers, 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 Massachusetts, at $55,385.
- Levelling out prices for home appliance repairers 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 — West Virginia sits at the bottom on $33,388.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for home appliance repairers, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $50,990, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Retained-pay figures for home appliance repairers 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 $55,385, which leads in Massachusetts.
- The price deflation applied to home appliance 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 West Virginia at $33,388. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — West Virginia anchors the bottom at $33,388 — and the two source series are dated independently.