Home Appliance Repairers salary

SOC 49-9031 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$50,990

per year, nationally

Middle half

$43,780–$63,390

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

32,150

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+2.6%

3,100 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.

$36,190$80,660

10th: $36,190
25th: $43,780
Median: $50,990
75th: $63,390
90th: $80,660

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 home appliance repairers 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	Massachusetts	$70,750	105.8	550	0.73×
2	New York	$65,190	107.9	2,110	1.05×
3	Alaska	$63,950	102.4	100	1.55×
4	Connecticut	$62,380	103.6	380	1.09×
5	Minnesota	$61,360	98.6	540	0.88×
6	Virginia	$59,820	101.1	870	1.02×
7	Vermont	$58,750	98.0	60	0.94×
8	California	$58,480	110.7	2,760	0.73×
9	Hawaii	$58,300	110.0	240	1.81×
10	Washington	$58,110	107.0	800	1.09×
11	Maryland	$57,860	105.0	570	1.00×
12	Florida	$57,280	103.4	3,000	1.46×
13	Illinois	$56,860	100.0	1,730	1.37×
14	New Jersey	$55,450	108.8	1,200	1.35×
15	New Hampshire	$53,640	104.2	200	1.38×
16	Delaware	$53,390	99.8	60	0.61×
17	Wisconsin	$52,440	94.1	520	0.86×
18	Colorado	$52,220	103.1	550	0.93×
19	Michigan	$52,160	96.2	1,050	1.16×
20	Pennsylvania	$51,990	97.6	1,010	0.80×
21	Oregon	$51,160	103.4	680	1.67×
22	Alabama	$50,190	88.8	280	0.64×
23	Rhode Island	$50,170	102.3	60	0.54×
24	Kentucky	$49,710	90.2	200	0.48×
25	Tennessee	$49,580	91.9	690	1.02×
26	Georgia	$49,500	96.3	670	0.66×
27	Utah	$49,350	98.9	360	1.01×
28	Louisiana	$49,240	88.2	310	0.76×
29	North Dakota	$48,720	89.0	50	0.59×
30	Texas	$48,630	97.1	2,200	0.76×
31	Missouri	$48,530	90.8	890	1.46×
32	Nevada	$48,070	100.0	—	—
33	Arizona	$47,800	100.7	990	1.47×
34	South Carolina	$47,460	93.7	380	0.79×
35	South Dakota	$47,340	88.6	100	1.07×
36	Ohio	$47,300	92.8	730	0.63×
37	North Carolina	$47,270	94.3	960	0.94×
38	Montana	$47,130	94.6	130	1.27×
39	Indiana	$47,080	93.3	1,030	1.55×
40	Maine	$46,500	97.0	160	1.22×
41	Idaho	$45,650	95.5	260	1.46×
42	Nebraska	$45,620	90.1	260	1.21×
43	Iowa	$44,090	87.8	210	0.65×
44	Wyoming	$43,630	92.7	170	2.99×
45	Oklahoma	$40,210	87.8	280	0.79×
46	Kansas	$38,840	90.1	310	1.06×
47	Arkansas	$38,680	86.9	230	0.84×
48	New Mexico	$37,440	92.2	150	0.84×
49	Mississippi	$35,890	87.0	220	0.90×
50	West Virginia	$35,720	89.5	80	0.58×

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 home appliance repairers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for home appliance repairers

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	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$86,940	103.2	40	0.89×
2	Barnstable Town, MA	$85,260	98.4	40	1.95×
3	Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI	$81,740	96.0	60	3.62×
4	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$81,000	97.9	320	2.00×
5	Anchorage, AK	$75,650	105.4	60	1.54×
6	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$74,360	102.7	140	1.15×
7	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$69,610	108.3	380	0.69×
8	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$65,190	112.6	2,560	1.31×
9	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$64,310	107.8	30	0.74×
10	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$64,220	115.6	250	0.50×
11	Naples-Marco Island, FL	$64,070	103.2	50	1.36×
12	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$63,840	108.9	330	0.51×
13	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$62,410	99.8	40	1.30×
14	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$62,400	94.7	160	0.67×
15	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$62,370	106.9	120	1.39×
16	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$61,870	111.1	530	1.22×
17	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$61,590	110.4	110	0.47×
18	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$61,390	104.8	310	0.76×
19	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$61,150	113.6	960	0.74×
20	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$60,940	92.6	70	0.79×
21	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$60,040	100.9	70	1.05×
22	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	$59,870	102.4	110	1.51×
23	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$59,770	106.7	200	0.91×
24	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$59,750	103.6	1,430	1.54×
25	New Haven, CT	$59,570	104.6	30	0.54×
26	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$59,000	105.8	270	0.81×
27	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$58,820	101.1	50	1.41×
28	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	$58,720	97.0	30	1.19×
29	Jacksonville, FL	$58,640	99.5	210	1.33×
30	Toledo, OH	$58,610	91.5	30	0.56×
31	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$58,540	101.8	100	0.66×
32	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$58,450	105.4	460	1.83×
33	Urban Honolulu, HI	$58,300	111.0	140	1.50×
34	Ogden, UT	$58,240	100.3	50	0.89×
35	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$58,240	101.4	500	1.73×
36	Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT	$58,200	98.2	60	0.92×
37	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$57,710	102.6	440	0.73×
38	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$57,660	93.1	120	0.84×
39	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$57,610	106.4	320	0.90×
40	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$57,600	92.7	30	0.41×

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 home appliance repairers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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