Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other salary

SOC 27-4099 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$70,720

per year, nationally

Middle half

$49,340–$106,780

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

12,450

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+0.6%

1,100 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.

$38,870$135,470

10th: $38,870
25th: $49,340
Median: $70,720
75th: $106,780
90th: $135,470

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Short-term on-the-job training

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

Where media and communication equipment workers, all other 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	Virginia	$117,640	101.1	400	1.22×
2	Arizona	$99,320	100.7	130	0.50×
3	Michigan	$96,530	96.2	50	0.15×
4	Alabama	$96,100	88.8	40	0.21×
5	Nebraska	$92,080	90.1	90	1.11×
6	Colorado	$86,370	103.1	580	2.52×
7	Louisiana	$86,260	88.2	190	1.21×
8	Florida	$86,230	103.4	540	0.68×
9	North Carolina	$78,690	94.3	180	0.46×
10	Minnesota	$77,960	98.6	50	0.23×
11	Utah	$76,790	98.9	120	0.89×
12	Texas	$76,400	97.1	540	0.48×
13	New York	$76,020	107.9	200	0.26×
14	Pennsylvania	$75,600	97.6	580	1.18×
15	South Carolina	$74,010	93.7	50	0.25×
16	Connecticut	$73,400	103.6	40	0.26×
17	Illinois	$72,430	100.0	140	0.30×
18	Ohio	$71,610	92.8	210	0.46×
19	New Jersey	$70,280	108.8	490	1.42×
20	Maryland	$68,880	105.0	760	3.41×
21	Oregon	$67,830	103.4	260	1.65×
22	California	$64,550	110.7	3,890	2.67×
23	Massachusetts	$60,960	105.8	90	0.30×
24	Hawaii	$56,900	110.0	280	5.59×
25	Nevada	$54,650	100.0	330	2.68×
26	Missouri	$53,480	90.8	70	0.31×
27	Maine	$50,960	97.0	40	0.72×
28	Mississippi	$49,590	87.0	70	0.79×
29	Georgia	$48,120	96.3	910	2.34×
30	New Mexico	$48,090	92.2	100	1.41×
31	New Hampshire	$47,040	104.2	100	1.78×
32	Tennessee	$42,370	91.9	100	0.40×
33	Montana	$36,890	94.6	50	1.31×

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 media and communication equipment workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for media and communication equipment workers, all other

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	Salinas, CA	$132,930	109.0	40	2.92×
2	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$121,680	108.9	670	2.69×
3	Colorado Springs, CO	$118,250	100.7	230	8.94×
4	Fayetteville, NC	$114,130	92.0	60	5.42×
5	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$112,260	100.9	100	0.89×
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$110,780	115.6	420	2.20×
7	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	$109,300	91.9	50	2.89×
8	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$107,520	100.3	30	0.21×
9	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$104,920	97.9	140	2.27×
10	Vallejo, CA	$103,650	108.5	60	5.37×
11	El Paso, TX	$103,380	89.9	40	1.40×
12	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	$100,420	84.8	50	3.53×
13	Jacksonville, FL	$96,100	99.5	40	0.63×
14	St. Louis, MO-IL	$96,010	95.1	50	0.47×
15	Omaha, NE-IA	$95,020	91.9	90	2.16×
16	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$94,590	108.8	90	5.52×
17	Columbus, OH	$92,580	95.5	50	0.54×
18	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$89,920	94.7	110	1.25×
19	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$86,230	114.2	120	0.52×
20	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$85,400	103.6	50	0.14×
21	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	$83,780	97.0	40	3.93×
22	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$83,040	100.2	160	1.80×
23	Ogden, UT	$81,740	100.3	30	1.50×
24	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	$81,250	100.0	40	1.79×
25	Urban Honolulu, HI	$79,750	111.0	260	7.31×
26	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$79,370	92.6	100	2.92×
27	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$75,600	102.6	270	1.15×
28	Pittsburgh, PA	$73,140	94.7	50	0.59×
29	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$71,090	104.5	360	3.30×
30	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$67,890	103.3	50	0.24×
31	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$67,830	105.4	190	1.94×
32	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$66,650	112.6	440	0.58×
33	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$66,300	100.9	60	0.87×
34	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$64,550	110.4	150	1.68×
35	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$64,540	113.6	2,110	4.21×
36	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$63,300	101.4	130	1.15×
37	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$63,140	110.5	40	1.50×
38	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$62,700	111.1	110	0.68×
39	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$60,440	108.3	100	0.45×
40	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$58,320	105.8	240	1.85×

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 media and communication equipment workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Audio and Video Technicians$58,100
Photographers$44,660
Film and Video Editors$75,420
Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film$74,990
Broadcast Technicians$59,570
Sound Engineering Technicians$73,130
Lighting Technicians$68,060

Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where media and communication equipment workers, all other earn the most

Best paying metro areas for media and communication equipment workers, all other

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