Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
What the pay figures show
- For once the obvious answer is right. California pays this job best, at $68,240. It keeps that lead after tax. It keeps it after local prices too — $56,267 in comparable money. Most jobs are not this tidy.
- The nominal leader for recreational vehicle service technicians is also the real leader: California at $68,240, holding through tax and through price deflation to $56,267. Both adjustments leave the ordering at the top intact, which indicates a wage premium large enough to dominate the state's tax burden and price level rather than merely offset them.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$52,000
People doing it
17,430
Highest paid
$68,240
CA
Best off, really
$56,267
NV, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$36,120
Highest tenth
$77,960
Lowest, really
$33,485
VA
States with data
45
National average
$56,440
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
96.98%
NV, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $33,485 and $56,267. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Just 17,430 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- This job is not published everywhere — 45 jurisdictions have a figure, with $52,000 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. California tops the ones that are.
- Wages for recreational vehicle service technicians cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $33,485 to $56,267. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- 17,430 are employed nationally in recreational vehicle service technicians — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- 45 jurisdictions carry a published median for recreational vehicle service technicians. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,120 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,960 |
| This salary | $52,000 |
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 Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
The national median for this job
$52,000around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $36,120 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $52,000 |
| Top tenth | $77,960 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians, state by state
The national median for this job
45states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $35,920 |
|---|---|
| Highest | California · $68,240 |
| Spread | $32,320 |
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 | $49,710 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $51,155 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NV | $65,200 | $54,568 | $56,267 |
| OK | $58,990 | $47,424 | $53,717 |
| NC | $62,000 | $50,032 | $53,147 |
| TN | $58,440 | $49,137 | $53,112 |
| WY | $56,200 | $47,337 | $52,105 |
| MT | $57,310 | $46,292 | $51,296 |
| NE | $56,510 | $45,718 | $50,587 |
| WI | $58,390 | $47,071 | $50,562 |
| IN | $56,750 | $46,134 | $50,046 |
| SC | $56,490 | $46,140 | $49,519 |
| NH | $62,090 | $52,069 | $49,427 |
| FL | $60,560 | $50,840 | $49,144 |
| OH | $54,350 | $45,072 | $49,092 |
| UT | $58,090 | $46,270 | $48,705 |
| CO | $60,760 | $49,036 | $48,367 |
| CA | $68,240 | $54,450 | $48,365 |
| ND | $50,390 | $42,668 | $48,174 |
| MN | $59,410 | $47,399 | $48,162 |
| AR | $48,800 | $40,044 | $46,289 |
| NM | $49,720 | $40,959 | $45,316 |
| NJ | $60,760 | $49,191 | $45,178 |
| AK | $54,410 | $45,898 | $45,125 |
| MA | $61,470 | $48,818 | $45,102 |
| IA | $48,030 | $39,559 | $44,565 |
| GA | $53,290 | $42,938 | $44,404 |
| ID | $49,550 | $40,221 | $43,993 |
| TX | $49,710 | $42,122 | $43,347 |
| MS | $46,400 | $37,698 | $43,187 |
| KY | $47,800 | $39,032 | $43,144 |
| AL | $47,760 | $38,510 | $42,803 |
| NY | $57,720 | $46,038 | $42,776 |
| LA | $45,390 | $37,675 | $42,646 |
| MO | $46,980 | $38,658 | $42,128 |
| ME | $48,990 | $39,557 | $40,739 |
| WA | $52,280 | $44,187 | $40,702 |
| AZ | $49,250 | $40,924 | $40,476 |
| PA | $48,240 | $39,460 | $40,472 |
| KS | $45,020 | $36,130 | $40,160 |
| CT | $51,460 | $41,448 | $39,973 |
| OR | $54,570 | $41,802 | $39,918 |
| SD | $39,820 | $34,175 | $38,794 |
| IL | $47,600 | $38,215 | $38,658 |
| MI | $41,600 | $34,088 | $36,193 |
| WV | $35,920 | $30,127 | $33,560 |
| VA | $41,280 | $33,736 | $33,485 |
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 $52,000 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- 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 Nevada, at $54,568.
- 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 Virginia, on $33,485.
- All wage figures for recreational vehicle service technicians are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $52,000. 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.
- Retained-pay figures for recreational vehicle service technicians 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 $54,568, which leads in Nevada.
- Real-terms results for recreational vehicle service technicians 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; Virginia anchors the distribution at $33,485. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.