High paying repair and maintenance jobs in Gainesville, GA

Every repair and maintenance occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Gainesville, GA. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single repair and maintenance job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in Gainesville, GA run 3.2% below the national average (2024), so a Gainesville, GA salary is worth about 1.03× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Gainesville, GA · Employed

1Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers$82,190
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,860 – $102,14080
2First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers$78,840
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,540 – $121,210450
3Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers$73,750
Postsecondary nondegree award
$38,870 – $95,730100
4Industrial Machinery Mechanics$64,150
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,630 – $82,590430
5Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines$62,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,550 – $77,99080
6Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists$57,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,960 – $78,420250
7Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics$55,330
Postsecondary nondegree award
$35,230 – $80,080440
8Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers$53,310
Postsecondary nondegree award
$37,540 – $73,610330
9Automotive Body and Related Repairers$49,960
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,590 – $75,24060
10Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians$49,850
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,420 – $76,07080
11Maintenance and Repair Workers, General$49,350
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,980 – $70,8501,220
12Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other$47,840
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,910 – $79,510140
13Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics$45,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,070 – $61,65030
14Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers$44,770
Some college, no degree
$35,310 – $62,78060
15Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers$36,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,980 – $54,65090

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianGainesville, GA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Electrical Power-Line Installers and RepairersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$82,190	$49,860 – $102,140	80
2	First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and RepairersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,840	$47,540 – $121,210	450
3	Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line InstallersPostsecondary nondegree award	$73,750	$38,870 – $95,730	100
4	Industrial Machinery MechanicsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,150	$46,630 – $82,590	430
5	Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except EnginesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,820	$44,550 – $77,990	80
6	Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine SpecialistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,100	$45,960 – $78,420	250
7	Automotive Service Technicians and MechanicsPostsecondary nondegree award	$55,330	$35,230 – $80,080	440
8	Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and InstallersPostsecondary nondegree award	$53,310	$37,540 – $73,610	330
9	Automotive Body and Related RepairersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,960	$37,590 – $75,240	60
10	Motorboat Mechanics and Service TechniciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,850	$38,420 – $76,070	80
11	Maintenance and Repair Workers, GeneralHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,350	$36,980 – $70,850	1,220
12	Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,840	$34,910 – $79,510	140
13	Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine MechanicsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,820	$30,070 – $61,650	30
14	Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine RepairersSome college, no degree	$44,770	$35,310 – $62,780	60
15	Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$36,830	$27,980 – $54,650	90

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Gainesville, GA. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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