Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers salary

SOC 49-2022 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$63,890

per year, nationally

Middle half

$51,830–$81,690

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

140,920

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-4.2%

13,200 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.

$44,240$96,730

10th: $44,240
25th: $51,830
Median: $63,890
75th: $81,690
90th: $96,730

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Postsecondary nondegree award
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

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

Where telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers 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	Alaska	$95,850	102.4	520	1.75×
2	North Dakota	$90,890	89.0	470	1.20×
3	New Hampshire	$85,240	104.2	550	0.89×
4	Vermont	$81,800	98.0	310	1.12×
5	Louisiana	$80,210	88.2	3,060	1.74×
6	Hawaii	$79,250	110.0	760	1.34×
7	New Jersey	$78,000	108.8	2,690	0.69×
8	Washington	$77,610	107.0	3,210	1.00×
9	California	$76,630	110.7	14,040	0.85×
10	Massachusetts	$76,500	105.8	2,890	0.88×
11	Colorado	$76,410	103.1	3,180	1.22×
12	Oregon	$75,270	103.4	1,710	0.96×
13	Connecticut	$75,200	103.6	1,910	1.24×
14	Minnesota	$75,150	98.6	1,900	0.71×
15	Montana	$73,970	94.6	630	1.35×
16	District of Columbia	$73,130	109.9	300	0.47×
17	Arizona	$72,710	100.7	3,320	1.13×
18	New York	$67,710	107.9	6,240	0.71×
19	Rhode Island	$66,960	102.3	150	0.34×
20	Delaware	$66,670	99.8	440	1.00×
21	Iowa	$65,710	87.8	1,780	1.26×
22	Utah	$65,650	98.9	2,160	1.37×
23	Pennsylvania	$64,960	97.6	5,220	0.95×
24	Georgia	$64,900	96.3	6,640	1.50×
25	Illinois	$64,630	100.0	5,760	1.04×
26	North Carolina	$63,970	94.3	3,540	0.79×
27	New Mexico	$63,600	92.2	1,100	1.40×
28	West Virginia	$63,560	89.5	820	1.29×
29	Maryland	$63,050	105.0	2,520	1.01×
30	Nevada	$62,800	100.0	890	0.63×
31	Idaho	$62,440	95.5	1,080	1.39×
32	South Dakota	$62,000	88.6	520	1.25×
33	Maine	$61,720	97.0	400	0.68×
34	Michigan	$61,700	96.2	3,940	0.99×
35	Ohio	$61,680	92.8	3,560	0.71×
36	South Carolina	$61,480	93.7	2,130	1.02×
37	Virginia	$61,340	101.1	3,310	0.89×
38	Mississippi	$61,250	87.0	1,500	1.42×
39	Tennessee	$61,220	91.9	2,480	0.83×
40	Indiana	$61,030	93.3	2,050	0.71×
41	Florida	$61,030	103.4	11,820	1.31×
42	Wisconsin	$60,770	94.1	2,120	0.79×
43	Nebraska	$60,520	90.1	1,430	1.55×
44	Wyoming	$60,250	92.7	310	1.22×
45	Alabama	$59,770	88.8	3,200	1.67×
46	Kentucky	$59,700	90.2	2,210	1.22×
47	Texas	$59,370	97.1	13,440	1.05×
48	Kansas	$58,690	90.1	1,480	1.13×
49	Missouri	$57,610	90.8	2,260	0.85×
50	Oklahoma	$50,350	87.8	1,660	1.07×
51	Arkansas	$49,740	86.9	1,320	1.11×

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 telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers

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	Anchorage, AK	$101,020	105.4	350	2.16×
2	Fairbanks-College, AK	$97,860	103.2	60	1.82×
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$92,290	115.6	1,850	0.86×
4	Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA	$90,690	92.7	220	2.45×
5	Rome, GA	$89,650	90.2	60	1.40×
6	El Centro, CA	$89,600	95.2	50	0.76×
7	Bismarck, ND	$89,260	91.0	70	1.02×
8	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$89,140	109.4	70	1.07×
9	Grand Forks, ND-MN	$88,820	86.7	80	1.65×
10	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$87,950	110.4	1,060	1.03×
11	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$87,160	105.7	210	1.15×
12	Yuba City, CA	$86,140	104.2	40	0.97×
13	Santa Fe, NM	$83,620	98.8	50	0.82×
14	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$83,030	109.9	60	0.65×
15	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$81,800	100.9	120	1.07×
16	Baton Rouge, LA	$81,470	90.8	520	1.40×
17	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$81,090	92.6	590	1.47×
18	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$81,030	111.1	1,750	0.93×
19	Alexandria, LA	$80,540	85.7	60	1.08×
20	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$80,000	100.9	1,180	1.57×
21	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$79,410	107.8	120	0.67×
22	Duluth, MN-WI	$79,280	88.8	50	0.42×
23	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$79,140	105.6	50	0.57×
24	Urban Honolulu, HI	$79,090	111.0	580	1.42×
25	Tucson, AZ	$78,810	96.9	220	0.61×
26	Las Cruces, NM	$78,620	90.2	70	0.98×
27	Lafayette, LA	$78,580	87.2	240	1.49×
28	Beckley, WV	$78,460	88.4	70	1.81×
29	Gainesville, FL	$78,420	96.7	160	1.13×
30	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$78,240	108.3	2,140	0.87×
31	Medford, OR	$78,190	101.4	80	1.00×
32	Springfield, MA	$78,190	96.1	160	0.88×
33	Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA	$78,160	85.1	140	1.87×
34	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$77,980	105.4	1,160	1.06×
35	Salinas, CA	$77,890	109.0	90	0.52×
36	Billings, MT	$77,820	93.5	60	0.71×
37	Boulder, CO	$77,800	105.2	80	0.48×
38	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$77,800	100.0	360	1.04×
39	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$77,610	100.1	100	0.85×
40	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$77,570	105.8	1,900	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. Metro areas where telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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