Medical Equipment Repairers
What the pay figures show
- The pay leader for medical equipment repairers is Alaska, at $78,570. Tax does not shift it. Prices are the twist. Adjust for what a basket costs and North Dakota comes out ahead, worth $68,237. Worth knowing before anyone packs.
- Nominal and post-tax rankings agree for medical equipment repairers: Alaska leads at $78,570 on both. Applying regional price parities separates them, promoting North Dakota to $68,237 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
$61,660
People doing it
65,990
Highest paid
$78,570
AK
Best off, really
$68,237
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$38,490
Highest tenth
$98,280
Lowest, really
$37,562
AR
States with data
51
National average
$65,930
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 $37,562 to $68,237.
- Just 65,990 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- Every state reports this one. All 51 jurisdictions publish a figure, and the middle wage is $61,660, so the comparison above leaves nobody out.
- Geographic dispersion in medical equipment repairers 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 $37,562 to $68,237 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- 65,990 are employed nationally in medical equipment repairers — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- All 51 jurisdictions publish an occupational median for medical equipment repairers, so the spread described above is a complete national range rather than a range across a reported subset.
Pay band: Medical Equipment Repairers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,280 |
| This salary | $61,660 |
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 Medical Equipment Repairers
The national median for this job
$61,660around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $38,490 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $61,660 |
| Top tenth | $98,280 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Medical Equipment Repairers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $38,950 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Alaska · $78,570 |
| Spread | $39,620 |
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 | $58,370 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $60,067 |
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 | $73,610 | $60,438 | $68,237 |
| SD | $69,530 | $57,744 | $65,548 |
| MT | $74,070 | $58,114 | $64,397 |
| ID | $74,270 | $57,996 | $63,436 |
| AK | $78,570 | $64,104 | $63,023 |
| NV | $69,820 | $57,948 | $59,753 |
| MN | $73,940 | $57,342 | $58,265 |
| IN | $64,590 | $52,202 | $56,628 |
| LA | $61,110 | $49,835 | $56,409 |
| NM | $62,640 | $50,733 | $56,129 |
| MA | $78,230 | $60,273 | $55,686 |
| MD | $72,310 | $56,629 | $54,469 |
| IA | $59,300 | $48,186 | $54,284 |
| WA | $71,190 | $58,912 | $54,266 |
| OR | $76,600 | $56,566 | $54,016 |
| CT | $71,220 | $55,766 | $53,782 |
| KY | $60,230 | $48,584 | $53,703 |
| IL | $67,380 | $53,041 | $53,656 |
| WI | $62,220 | $49,935 | $53,637 |
| CO | $66,720 | $53,540 | $52,810 |
| PA | $62,890 | $50,781 | $52,083 |
| OH | $57,370 | $47,415 | $51,644 |
| MI | $60,680 | $48,608 | $51,610 |
| HI | $72,360 | $55,679 | $51,266 |
| NE | $57,080 | $46,150 | $51,065 |
| AZ | $62,810 | $51,480 | $50,917 |
| NC | $59,190 | $47,886 | $50,868 |
| VT | $60,680 | $49,042 | $50,750 |
| CA | $72,450 | $57,075 | $50,697 |
| MO | $57,340 | $46,495 | $50,669 |
| TX | $58,370 | $49,080 | $50,507 |
| ME | $61,810 | $48,992 | $50,457 |
| NJ | $68,460 | $54,757 | $50,290 |
| RI | $63,010 | $50,866 | $50,157 |
| DE | $62,260 | $49,317 | $49,689 |
| UT | $58,910 | $46,893 | $49,360 |
| NH | $61,860 | $51,885 | $49,252 |
| VA | $61,070 | $48,499 | $48,138 |
| AL | $53,140 | $42,596 | $47,344 |
| NY | $63,670 | $50,498 | $46,920 |
| FL | $56,940 | $47,931 | $46,332 |
| OK | $48,440 | $39,422 | $44,653 |
| TN | $48,530 | $41,174 | $44,505 |
| DC | $59,780 | $47,774 | $43,116 |
| WV | $47,090 | $38,696 | $43,104 |
| WY | $44,640 | $38,048 | $41,881 |
| SC | $46,120 | $38,496 | $41,314 |
| GA | $48,350 | $39,215 | $40,554 |
| KS | $45,200 | $36,265 | $40,310 |
| MS | $40,710 | $33,354 | $38,210 |
| AR | $38,950 | $32,494 | $37,562 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of medical equipment 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 $61,660.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for medical equipment repairers. 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 $64,104.
- Levelling out prices for medical equipment 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 — Arkansas sits at the bottom on $37,562.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for medical equipment repairers, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $61,660, 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.
- The household modeled for medical equipment repairers 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, $64,104. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to medical equipment 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 Arkansas at $37,562. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Arkansas anchors the bottom at $37,562 — and the two source series are dated independently.