Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other salary

SOC 49-9069 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$68,990

per year, nationally

Middle half

$51,070–$84,390

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

9,400

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+2.0%

1,000 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.

$40,140$102,990

10th: $40,140
25th: $51,070
Median: $68,990
75th: $84,390
90th: $102,990

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 precision instrument and equipment repairers, 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	Alaska	$113,670	102.4	80	4.23×
2	Washington	$98,340	107.0	340	1.57×
3	Hawaii	$88,580	110.0	180	4.61×
4	Delaware	$82,200	99.8	90	3.09×
5	Louisiana	$82,140	88.2	80	0.67×
6	Tennessee	$82,090	91.9	1,150	5.79×
7	Virginia	$81,850	101.1	140	0.55×
8	Missouri	$81,330	90.8	30	0.18×
9	New Jersey	$80,930	108.8	300	1.14×
10	Ohio	$80,200	92.8	410	1.22×
11	California	$80,060	110.7	1,460	1.32×
12	New Mexico	$78,060	92.2	100	1.83×
13	Kansas	$77,330	90.1	170	2.01×
14	Arizona	$77,210	100.7	60	0.31×
15	Connecticut	$76,230	103.6	160	1.55×
16	Colorado	$70,510	103.1	90	0.54×
17	Mississippi	$70,260	87.0	30	0.47×
18	Oregon	$68,350	103.4	—	—
19	Kentucky	$66,410	90.2	80	0.64×
20	Michigan	$66,360	96.2	190	0.72×
21	Maryland	$65,240	105.0	130	0.79×
22	New York	$65,170	107.9	210	0.37×
23	Alabama	$64,400	88.8	130	1.01×
24	Texas	$64,150	97.1	580	0.68×
25	Georgia	$63,110	96.3	180	0.60×
26	Massachusetts	$62,260	105.8	70	0.31×
27	Wyoming	$61,660	92.7	50	3.18×
28	Indiana	$61,350	93.3	140	0.70×
29	North Carolina	$61,070	94.3	360	1.21×
30	Arkansas	$60,990	86.9	130	1.66×
31	Oklahoma	$60,850	87.8	230	2.19×
32	Florida	$59,310	103.4	410	0.68×
33	Nebraska	$58,710	90.1	—	—
34	South Carolina	$57,480	93.7	70	0.50×
35	Minnesota	$57,290	98.6	110	0.63×
36	Utah	$55,160	98.9	—	—
37	Maine	$53,280	97.0	120	3.01×
38	Illinois	$51,350	100.0	120	0.34×
39	Iowa	$45,960	87.8	200	2.14×
40	Pennsylvania	$33,870	97.6	380	1.03×

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 precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for precision instrument and equipment repairers, 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	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$120,900	111.1	—	—
2	Baton Rouge, LA	$104,470	90.8	—	—
3	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$102,720	110.4	100	1.48×
4	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$101,770	98.6	90	0.47×
5	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$100,460	95.4	90	1.36×
6	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$100,030	100.9	40	1.79×
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$99,310	115.6	170	1.20×
8	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$88,860	111.9	140	1.53×
9	Kansas City, MO-KS	$85,520	92.5	—	—
10	Knoxville, TN	$85,100	92.6	90	3.56×
11	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$82,200	108.9	50	0.25×
12	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$81,220	92.7	40	1.60×
13	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$79,520	112.6	260	0.46×
14	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$79,440	97.9	60	1.26×
15	Topeka, KS	$77,360	88.8	30	4.30×
16	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$76,320	105.8	—	—
17	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$75,120	102.7	70	1.87×
18	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	$75,030	97.0	40	4.74×
19	Richmond, VA	$74,300	97.9	—	—
20	Warner Robins, GA	$73,690	93.8	40	7.96×
21	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$73,640	102.6	200	1.14×
22	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$71,600	105.4	210	2.87×
23	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$71,350	106.7	70	1.08×
24	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$70,830	103.6	—	—
25	Columbus, OH	$68,870	95.5	80	1.17×
26	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$66,500	106.4	180	1.72×
27	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$64,990	100.3	—	—
28	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$64,360	94.7	100	1.53×
29	Cleveland, OH	$63,910	93.9	70	1.17×
30	Jacksonville, FL	$63,040	99.5	60	1.39×
31	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$62,390	104.5	80	0.96×
32	Omaha, NE-IA	$61,680	91.9	—	—
33	Oklahoma City, OK	$61,670	90.4	140	3.53×
34	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$61,380	113.6	450	1.18×
35	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$61,070	97.3	70	0.89×
36	Tulsa, OK	$60,490	89.2	50	1.77×
37	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$59,760	108.3	—	—
38	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$59,320	98.2	80	1.83×
39	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$58,980	100.9	70	0.78×
40	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$58,240	114.2	100	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. Metro areas where precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

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

Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other earn the most

Best paying metro areas for precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other

Similar occupations

Compare