Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door salary

SOC 49-9012 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$74,340

per year, nationally

Middle half

$54,950–$97,120

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

48,240

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+1.3%

3,900 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.

$45,910$112,500

10th: $45,910
25th: $54,950
Median: $74,340
75th: $97,120
90th: $112,500

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
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 control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door 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	Rhode Island	$110,900	102.3	110	0.68×
2	Alaska	$109,450	102.4	30	0.31×
3	Connecticut	$104,690	103.6	360	0.69×
4	North Dakota	$103,580	89.0	270	2.04×
5	Washington	$102,870	107.0	450	0.41×
6	New York	$101,150	107.9	4,170	1.39×
7	California	$100,260	110.7	4,310	0.76×
8	Wyoming	$100,030	92.7	290	3.38×
9	District of Columbia	$98,810	109.9	50	0.22×
10	South Dakota	$98,090	88.6	150	1.06×
11	Oregon	$97,110	103.4	490	0.81×
12	Michigan	$96,890	96.2	2,240	1.64×
13	New Jersey	$96,510	108.8	1,000	0.75×
14	Massachusetts	$95,520	105.8	1,320	1.17×
15	Nebraska	$88,610	90.1	440	1.39×
16	Idaho	$84,390	95.5	180	0.66×
17	Iowa	$83,830	87.8	820	1.70×
18	Vermont	$82,010	98.0	40	0.47×
19	Hawaii	$81,850	110.0	110	0.59×
20	West Virginia	$79,000	89.5	610	2.81×
21	Pennsylvania	$78,120	97.6	1,330	0.71×
22	Kansas	$77,720	90.1	290	0.64×
23	Missouri	$77,650	90.8	620	0.68×
24	Ohio	$76,920	92.8	1,230	0.72×
25	Minnesota	$76,640	98.6	710	0.77×
26	Wisconsin	$76,540	94.1	980	1.08×
27	Delaware	$75,720	99.8	150	1.00×
28	Utah	$73,090	98.9	300	0.56×
29	Nevada	$72,310	100.0	70	0.15×
30	Virginia	$68,000	101.1	820	0.64×
31	New Mexico	$67,520	92.2	320	1.20×
32	Louisiana	$66,730	88.2	560	0.94×
33	Maryland	$66,500	105.0	800	0.93×
34	Maine	$66,240	97.0	190	0.96×
35	North Carolina	$64,820	94.3	1,440	0.94×
36	Colorado	$63,770	103.1	1,190	1.34×
37	Oklahoma	$62,780	87.8	1,320	2.50×
38	Illinois	$61,980	100.0	250	0.13×
39	Alabama	$61,670	88.8	430	0.66×
40	Kentucky	$61,450	90.2	450	0.73×
41	Arkansas	$61,440	86.9	440	1.09×
42	New Hampshire	$61,380	104.2	220	1.04×
43	Georgia	$61,070	96.3	870	0.57×
44	Arizona	$60,570	100.7	840	0.83×
45	Indiana	$60,170	93.3	760	0.77×
46	Montana	$58,940	94.6	50	0.29×
47	Texas	$58,230	97.1	11,630	2.67×
48	Florida	$57,460	103.4	1,250	0.41×
49	Tennessee	$57,010	91.9	670	0.66×
50	South Carolina	$50,800	93.7	420	0.58×
51	Mississippi	$48,670	87.0	170	0.46×

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 control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door

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	Modesto, CA	$133,990	104.1	40	0.71×
2	Fresno, CA	$132,360	102.2	100	0.66×
3	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$131,120	106.7	330	0.99×
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$130,800	115.6	580	0.79×
5	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$115,460	110.4	160	0.45×
6	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$108,940	106.9	80	0.67×
7	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$105,800	105.1	100	1.16×
8	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$105,450	102.7	120	0.67×
9	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$104,840	111.9	490	1.04×
10	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$103,780	112.6	3,110	1.06×
11	Niles, MI	$103,580	92.4	60	3.09×
12	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$102,870	111.1	210	0.32×
13	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$102,660	99.6	260	1.84×
14	Bay City, MI	$100,820	91.9	40	3.70×
15	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$100,670	95.0	80	1.17×
16	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$100,090	100.3	1,070	1.82×
17	Glens Falls, NY	$99,820	94.9	40	2.42×
18	Youngstown-Warren, OH	$99,170	87.4	30	0.65×
19	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$99,010	105.4	250	0.68×
20	Barnstable Town, MA	$98,690	98.4	50	1.81×
21	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$97,920	108.8	40	0.59×
22	Rapid City, SD	$97,170	89.2	40	1.70×
23	Bend, OR	$97,110	103.6	30	1.00×
24	Sioux Falls, SD-MN	$96,670	90.6	30	0.59×
25	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$96,610	100.9	110	1.03×
26	Pittsfield, MA	$96,480	95.1	40	2.06×
27	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$96,280	101.8	210	0.94×
28	Vallejo, CA	$95,950	108.5	70	1.64×
29	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$95,680	107.8	90	1.37×
30	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$95,520	108.3	840	1.00×
31	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$95,380	91.7	80	0.67×
32	Salem, OR	$95,010	103.6	40	0.72×
33	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$94,980	100.1	30	0.86×
34	Worcester, MA	$94,900	102.5	200	1.85×
35	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$94,730	95.8	390	2.33×
36	Visalia, CA	$94,120	99.8	50	0.99×
37	Omaha, NE-IA	$91,660	91.9	280	1.80×
38	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$90,740	113.6	1,050	0.54×
39	St. Louis, MO-IL	$89,660	95.1	330	0.80×
40	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$88,240	106.4	590	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. Metro areas where control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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