High paying repair and maintenance jobs in Columbus, IN with no experience

The best paid repair and maintenance occupations in Columbus, IN that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Columbus, IN run 7.0% below the national average (2024), so a Columbus, IN salary is worth about 1.08× 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, Columbus, IN · Employed

1Industrial Machinery Mechanics$63,770
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,710 – $80,680490
2Maintenance Workers, Machinery$61,530
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,590 – $61,53040
3Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines$60,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,430 – $92,35050
4Maintenance and Repair Workers, General$58,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,090 – $75,050610
5Automotive Body and Related Repairers$57,000
High school diploma or equivalent
$41,160 – $97,04050
6Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists$55,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,130 – $72,78080
7Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers$54,490
Postsecondary nondegree award
$41,590 – $95,38070
8Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics$49,180
Postsecondary nondegree award
$36,220 – $74,650190
9Tire Repairers and Changers$33,140
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,020 – $41,14040

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

#	Occupation	MedianColumbus, IN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Industrial Machinery MechanicsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,770	$47,710 – $80,680	490
2	Maintenance Workers, MachineryHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,530	$47,590 – $61,530	40
3	Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except EnginesHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,880	$45,430 – $92,350	50
4	Maintenance and Repair Workers, GeneralHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,450	$36,090 – $75,050	610
5	Automotive Body and Related RepairersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,000	$41,160 – $97,040	50
6	Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine SpecialistsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,470	$44,130 – $72,780	80
7	Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and InstallersPostsecondary nondegree award	$54,490	$41,590 – $95,380	70
8	Automotive Service Technicians and MechanicsPostsecondary nondegree award	$49,180	$36,220 – $74,650	190
9	Tire Repairers and ChangersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$33,140	$30,020 – $41,140	40

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Columbus, IN. 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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