Calibration Technologists and Technicians salary

SOC 17-3028 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$67,820

per year, nationally

Middle half

$56,380–$92,080

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

16,540

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+4.7%

1,400 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$46,680$106,550

10th: $46,680
25th: $56,380
Median: $67,820
75th: $92,080
90th: $106,550

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Associate's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where calibration technologists and technicians earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Washington	$93,880	107.0	270	0.70×
2	Oklahoma	$80,920	87.8	150	0.81×
3	Louisiana	$80,670	88.2	480	2.35×
4	California	$79,010	110.7	1,250	0.64×
5	Vermont	$77,950	98.0	30	1.07×
6	New Jersey	$77,040	108.8	390	0.87×
7	Massachusetts	$75,500	105.8	380	0.98×
8	Texas	$74,100	97.1	5,020	3.36×
9	Virginia	$72,730	101.1	330	0.75×
10	Tennessee	$71,660	91.9	130	0.36×
11	Michigan	$70,140	96.2	400	0.84×
12	Arizona	$69,230	100.7	400	1.15×
13	Oregon	$68,830	103.4	170	0.79×
14	Utah	$67,300	98.9	80	0.45×
15	South Carolina	$66,910	93.7	70	0.27×
16	Georgia	$66,730	96.3	140	0.26×
17	New Hampshire	$66,650	104.2	280	3.83×
18	New Mexico	$65,650	92.2	190	2.00×
19	Ohio	$65,520	92.8	740	1.26×
20	Nevada	$64,530	100.0	110	0.67×
21	Rhode Island	$64,390	102.3	50	1.01×
22	Pennsylvania	$63,700	97.6	370	0.58×
23	Colorado	$63,660	103.1	260	0.84×
24	Nebraska	$63,530	90.1	130	1.17×
25	Connecticut	$63,420	103.6	120	0.66×
26	Indiana	$61,930	93.3	810	2.38×
27	Missouri	$61,510	90.8	280	0.90×
28	Iowa	$61,490	87.8	110	0.64×
29	New York	$61,270	107.9	800	0.77×
30	Wisconsin	$61,060	94.1	320	1.03×
31	North Carolina	$61,000	94.3	410	0.79×
32	Maryland	$60,860	105.0	200	0.68×
33	Minnesota	$60,360	98.6	400	1.26×
34	Florida	$59,770	103.4	480	0.45×
35	Illinois	$59,590	100.0	—	—
36	Kentucky	$55,650	90.2	90	0.43×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where calibration technologists and technicians wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for calibration technologists and technicians

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$107,220	111.1	240	1.10×
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$101,840	110.4	150	1.23×
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$99,660	115.6	240	0.93×
4	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	$99,400	90.0	260	14.92×
5	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$95,180	110.5	40	1.27×
6	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$86,280	111.9	110	0.68×
7	Portland-South Portland, ME	$85,180	101.9	70	2.19×
8	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$83,500	98.2	70	0.83×
9	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$82,100	92.6	60	1.19×
10	Baton Rouge, LA	$80,670	90.8	330	7.58×
11	Columbus, OH	$79,950	95.5	170	1.46×
12	Richmond, VA	$79,040	97.9	40	0.60×
13	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$78,610	98.6	1,930	5.51×
14	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$77,470	100.3	130	0.63×
15	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$77,410	108.3	330	1.15×
16	Corpus Christi, TX	$77,380	92.7	150	7.53×
17	Reno, NV	$75,720	101.0	30	1.17×
18	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$75,450	99.6	80	1.74×
19	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$75,080	96.3	50	0.42×
20	Boulder, CO	$73,100	105.2	40	2.12×
21	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$71,950	112.6	630	0.62×
22	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$71,640	113.6	430	0.65×
23	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$71,570	108.9	140	0.41×
24	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$69,110	105.7	130	6.35×
25	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$68,830	105.4	—	—
26	Odessa, TX	$68,630	93.9	50	5.71×
27	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$67,310	106.7	50	0.44×
28	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$67,010	95.4	130	1.11×
29	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$66,230	106.4	90	0.48×
30	St. Louis, MO-IL	$65,800	95.1	150	1.07×
31	Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI	$65,680	95.5	50	0.79×
32	Cleveland, OH	$65,390	93.9	80	0.70×
33	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$65,130	97.9	120	1.46×
34	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR	$64,800	91.4	—	—
35	Tucson, AZ	$64,430	96.9	50	1.17×
36	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$64,390	101.8	70	0.90×
37	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$64,220	100.1	80	0.25×
38	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$64,150	103.1	890	2.06×
39	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$63,660	101.1	—	—
40	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$63,420	102.7	50	0.79×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where calibration technologists and technicians wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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