Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
What the pay figures show
- Alaska comes first for this job on every measure. $75,360 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $60,803 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other, Alaska's $75,360 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $60,803. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$49,230
People doing it
176,300
Highest paid
$75,360
AK
Best off, really
$60,803
AK, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$36,080
Highest tenth
$77,040
Lowest, really
$37,375
CA
States with data
51
National average
$53,850
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
101.72%
AK, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job is fairly steady around the country. Count tax and local prices and the states bunch closer still, from $37,375 to $60,803. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- 176,300 people do this job across the country, and the middle one earns $49,230. Common work, though not one of the giants.
- Every state reports this one. All 51 jurisdictions publish a figure, and the middle wage is $49,230, so the comparison above leaves nobody out.
- Geographic dispersion in installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $37,375 through $60,803. Where nominal spread is this contained, relocation decisions in the occupation turn on non-wage factors, because the wage differential does not survive the adjustments in a form large enough to drive them.
- National employment in installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other is 176,300 — a substantial occupation, though an order of magnitude below the largest. Regional differentials here move real aggregate sums without dominating any single state's wage bill.
- All 51 jurisdictions publish an occupational median for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other, so the spread described above is a complete national range rather than a range across a reported subset.
Pay band: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,040 |
| This salary | $49,230 |
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 Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
The national median for this job
$49,230around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $36,080 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $49,230 |
| Top tenth | $77,040 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $44,370 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Alaska · $75,360 |
| Spread | $30,990 |
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 | $45,360 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $46,679 |
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 | $75,360 | $61,846 | $60,803 |
| HI | $74,260 | $56,871 | $52,363 |
| ME | $61,380 | $48,676 | $50,131 |
| ND | $52,040 | $43,994 | $49,670 |
| MN | $60,250 | $48,017 | $48,790 |
| WA | $63,080 | $52,865 | $48,695 |
| RI | $59,890 | $48,476 | $47,801 |
| LA | $50,660 | $41,752 | $47,260 |
| SD | $48,490 | $41,142 | $46,702 |
| MO | $52,000 | $42,455 | $46,267 |
| KY | $51,310 | $41,729 | $46,126 |
| ID | $51,680 | $41,819 | $45,741 |
| NM | $50,010 | $41,178 | $45,558 |
| OK | $49,420 | $40,166 | $45,495 |
| KS | $51,060 | $40,646 | $45,180 |
| IA | $48,680 | $40,056 | $45,125 |
| WY | $48,260 | $40,957 | $45,083 |
| IL | $55,780 | $44,383 | $44,897 |
| UT | $53,110 | $42,490 | $44,726 |
| NE | $48,940 | $39,980 | $44,237 |
| TN | $48,200 | $40,909 | $44,218 |
| MA | $59,890 | $47,627 | $44,002 |
| NV | $50,190 | $42,508 | $43,831 |
| MT | $48,360 | $39,521 | $43,794 |
| WV | $47,850 | $39,274 | $43,749 |
| AR | $45,830 | $37,767 | $43,658 |
| OH | $47,550 | $39,795 | $43,344 |
| CT | $56,110 | $44,928 | $43,330 |
| VT | $51,030 | $41,729 | $43,182 |
| WI | $49,100 | $40,065 | $43,036 |
| DC | $59,320 | $47,434 | $42,809 |
| IN | $48,120 | $39,454 | $42,800 |
| NY | $56,900 | $45,424 | $42,205 |
| AL | $46,610 | $37,636 | $41,832 |
| SC | $46,430 | $38,724 | $41,559 |
| MS | $44,370 | $36,148 | $41,411 |
| AZ | $49,990 | $41,500 | $41,046 |
| CO | $50,840 | $41,501 | $40,936 |
| MI | $47,470 | $38,555 | $40,936 |
| NC | $46,780 | $38,410 | $40,801 |
| GA | $48,490 | $39,321 | $40,663 |
| PA | $48,180 | $39,414 | $40,424 |
| TX | $45,360 | $38,627 | $39,750 |
| NH | $49,030 | $41,576 | $39,466 |
| DE | $48,310 | $38,883 | $39,175 |
| MD | $49,950 | $40,306 | $38,769 |
| VA | $47,910 | $38,681 | $38,394 |
| OR | $52,230 | $40,127 | $38,318 |
| FL | $46,290 | $39,374 | $38,060 |
| NJ | $49,920 | $41,080 | $37,729 |
| CA | $51,230 | $42,077 | $37,375 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $49,230, 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.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for this job. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Alaska keeps the most at $61,846.
- 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 — California sits at the bottom on $37,375.
- These are distribution medians for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other, with a national value of $49,230. 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.
- The household modeled for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Alaska retains the most, $61,846. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other 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 California at $37,375. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — California anchors the bottom at $37,375 — and the two source series are dated independently.