Industrial Machinery Mechanics salary

SOC 49-9041 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$64,520

per year, nationally

Middle half

$55,010–$78,780

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

439,640

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+16.1%

45,700 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.

$46,120$95,170

10th: $46,120
25th: $55,010
Median: $64,520
75th: $78,780
90th: $95,170

Getting in

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

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

Where industrial machinery mechanics 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	District of Columbia	$87,670	109.9	200	0.10×
2	Wyoming	$78,320	92.7	2,010	2.53×
3	Nevada	$77,750	100.0	2,240	0.51×
4	Alaska	$77,390	102.4	860	0.93×
5	Hawaii	$77,330	110.0	910	0.52×
6	Washington	$77,220	107.0	10,710	1.07×
7	Illinois	$76,200	100.0	12,100	0.70×
8	Oregon	$75,670	103.4	7,070	1.27×
9	Colorado	$75,600	103.1	7,260	0.89×
10	Arizona	$74,790	100.7	5,020	0.55×
11	New Jersey	$74,760	108.8	8,380	0.69×
12	California	$74,400	110.7	26,830	0.52×
13	Massachusetts	$72,840	105.8	6,130	0.60×
14	Maine	$72,310	97.0	1,190	0.66×
15	Minnesota	$71,960	98.6	6,510	0.78×
16	Maryland	$71,870	105.0	2,880	0.37×
17	Utah	$70,720	98.9	4,040	0.82×
18	Connecticut	$69,950	103.6	2,360	0.49×
19	New York	$69,740	107.9	12,740	0.47×
20	Missouri	$67,390	90.8	5,420	0.65×
21	Delaware	$67,320	99.8	890	0.65×
22	Montana	$67,250	94.6	820	0.57×
23	Wisconsin	$66,620	94.1	13,870	1.67×
24	North Dakota	$65,990	89.0	2,560	2.11×
25	Kansas	$65,830	90.1	7,700	1.89×
26	Ohio	$65,130	92.8	21,950	1.40×
27	Tennessee	$65,010	91.9	12,850	1.39×
28	Rhode Island	$64,770	102.3	1,070	0.76×
29	Kentucky	$64,560	90.2	11,540	2.04×
30	Iowa	$64,400	87.8	6,050	1.37×
31	Michigan	$64,250	96.2	17,310	1.39×
32	New Hampshire	$64,150	104.2	1,950	1.01×
33	Nebraska	$64,110	90.1	2,880	1.00×
34	Virginia	$64,020	101.1	9,470	0.82×
35	Indiana	$63,950	93.3	14,960	1.65×
36	Pennsylvania	$63,840	97.6	22,160	1.29×
37	Vermont	$63,180	98.0	700	0.81×
38	Idaho	$62,860	95.5	2,750	1.13×
39	North Carolina	$62,430	94.3	15,720	1.13×
40	South Carolina	$62,330	93.7	9,890	1.52×
41	Texas	$61,930	97.1	56,950	1.43×
42	Alabama	$61,920	88.8	17,850	2.99×
43	West Virginia	$61,710	89.5	3,150	1.59×
44	South Dakota	$61,560	88.6	1,230	0.95×
45	Oklahoma	$61,540	87.8	6,250	1.29×
46	Georgia	$61,130	96.3	14,230	1.03×
47	New Mexico	$60,670	92.2	2,780	1.13×
48	Florida	$60,650	103.4	17,120	0.61×
49	Louisiana	$60,260	88.2	7,410	1.35×
50	Arkansas	$59,760	86.9	6,270	1.70×
51	Mississippi	$57,760	87.0	4,460	1.36×

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 industrial machinery mechanics wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for industrial machinery mechanics

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	Longview-Kelso, WA	$96,950	97.5	560	4.79×
2	Parkersburg-Vienna, WV	$93,670	87.1	200	1.93×
3	Kokomo, IN	$91,470	89.6	240	2.38×
4	Fairbanks-College, AK	$91,330	103.2	130	1.25×
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$90,580	115.6	2,550	0.38×
6	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$89,830	100.4	230	0.64×
7	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$89,620	105.6	300	1.12×
8	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$84,620	110.4	920	0.29×
9	Wichita, KS	$83,540	88.9	2,470	2.83×
10	Duluth, MN-WI	$83,380	88.8	460	1.30×
11	Great Falls, MT	$82,620	96.8	90	0.91×
12	Napa, CA	$81,320	112.6	180	0.82×
13	Helena, MT	$81,290	95.7	60	0.46×
14	Urban Honolulu, HI	$81,120	111.0	720	0.57×
15	Lexington Park, MD	$80,810	100.8	70	0.35×
16	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$79,920	111.1	4,600	0.78×
17	Albany, OR	$79,730	102.1	390	2.89×
18	Bay City, MI	$78,960	91.9	210	2.17×
19	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$78,800	102.4	240	1.58×
20	Anchorage, AK	$78,720	105.4	150	0.30×
21	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$78,710	105.4	4,830	1.41×
22	Colorado Springs, CO	$78,640	100.7	550	0.62×
23	Hinesville, GA	$78,620	93.9	100	1.66×
24	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$78,410	103.2	260	0.38×
25	Modesto, CA	$78,370	104.1	810	1.46×
26	Vallejo, CA	$78,200	108.5	520	1.27×
27	Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA	$77,850	87.1	510	2.14×
28	Reno, NV	$77,810	101.0	1,090	1.40×
29	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$77,630	106.7	1,050	0.34×
30	Bloomington, IL	$77,400	93.5	—	—
31	Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA	$77,120	103.9	330	2.29×
32	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$77,020	107.8	260	0.44×
33	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$76,990	105.8	3,440	0.76×
34	Decatur, AL	$76,990	87.2	950	5.47×
35	Bellingham, WA	$76,960	103.3	430	1.68×
36	Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ	$76,950	98.3	180	0.88×
37	Corvallis, OR	$76,830	104.0	30	0.32×
38	St. Louis, MO-IL	$76,780	95.1	2,610	0.69×
39	Walla Walla, WA	$76,540	98.5	100	1.43×
40	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$76,540	109.4	70	0.33×

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 industrial machinery mechanics wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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