Locksmiths and Safe Repairers salary

SOC 49-9094 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$51,320

per year, nationally

Middle half

$43,160–$64,560

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

15,040

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-8.3%

1,700 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.

$35,530$79,400

10th: $35,530
25th: $43,160
Median: $51,320
75th: $64,560
90th: $79,400

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 locksmiths and safe 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	District of Columbia	$76,740	109.9	—	—
2	Connecticut	$69,280	103.6	120	0.73×
3	Hawaii	$64,490	110.0	50	0.87×
4	Delaware	$63,640	99.8	50	1.03×
5	New York	$61,830	107.9	960	1.02×
6	California	$61,010	110.7	2,060	1.17×
7	Maryland	$60,330	105.0	270	1.02×
8	Massachusetts	$59,420	105.8	300	0.85×
9	Minnesota	$59,070	98.6	220	0.78×
10	Alaska	$58,390	102.4	80	2.56×
11	Illinois	$58,110	100.0	430	0.74×
12	Washington	$58,010	107.0	380	1.12×
13	Rhode Island	$57,360	102.3	80	1.68×
14	New Jersey	$57,000	108.8	480	1.15×
15	West Virginia	$56,690	89.5	50	0.77×
16	New Hampshire	$56,510	104.2	40	0.54×
17	Montana	$56,200	94.6	110	2.23×
18	Utah	$55,520	98.9	180	1.07×
19	Michigan	$54,120	96.2	230	0.53×
20	Georgia	$54,050	96.3	330	0.70×
21	Virginia	$53,590	101.1	430	1.09×
22	Kansas	$52,930	90.1	110	0.78×
23	Maine	$52,670	97.0	140	2.24×
24	Pennsylvania	$52,160	97.6	530	0.91×
25	Kentucky	$51,120	90.2	120	0.63×
26	Oregon	$50,450	103.4	250	1.33×
27	Tennessee	$50,250	91.9	340	1.08×
28	Missouri	$50,140	90.8	220	0.77×
29	Florida	$49,120	103.4	1,440	1.49×
30	Nebraska	$49,070	90.1	50	0.55×
31	Wisconsin	$48,360	94.1	130	0.47×
32	Ohio	$47,760	92.8	400	0.74×
33	Indiana	$47,640	93.3	250	0.81×
34	Colorado	$47,500	103.1	380	1.37×
35	Nevada	$47,450	100.0	170	1.16×
36	South Carolina	$46,560	93.7	140	0.65×
37	Louisiana	$46,550	88.2	190	1.02×
38	Iowa	$46,360	87.8	120	0.79×
39	North Carolina	$45,900	94.3	480	1.01×
40	Arizona	$44,460	100.7	260	0.83×
41	North Dakota	$44,310	89.0	70	1.60×
42	Texas	$43,860	97.1	1,420	1.04×
43	Idaho	$43,460	95.5	150	1.77×
44	Alabama	$43,340	88.8	200	1.00×
45	Mississippi	$42,940	87.0	80	0.72×
46	New Mexico	$41,920	92.2	140	1.68×
47	Oklahoma	$38,680	87.8	180	1.08×
48	Arkansas	$35,770	86.9	100	0.83×

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 locksmiths and safe repairers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for locksmiths and safe 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	New Haven, CT	$78,160	104.6	30	1.17×
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$74,320	110.4	90	0.81×
3	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$70,980	102.7	40	0.62×
4	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$70,120	98.9	60	3.82×
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$65,370	115.6	340	1.48×
6	Urban Honolulu, HI	$64,970	111.0	40	1.04×
7	Fresno, CA	$63,770	102.2	50	1.03×
8	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$62,930	105.1	30	1.07×
9	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$62,910	106.4	170	1.02×
10	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$62,050	108.8	30	1.71×
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$61,830	112.6	960	1.04×
12	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$61,500	108.3	230	0.87×
13	Portland-South Portland, ME	$61,350	101.9	70	2.53×
14	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$61,170	96.9	40	0.54×
15	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$60,850	104.5	130	0.98×
16	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$60,720	108.9	300	0.99×
17	Syracuse, NY	$60,610	95.7	30	1.07×
18	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$59,940	107.8	30	1.61×
19	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$59,410	104.8	160	0.87×
20	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$59,270	96.3	110	1.01×
21	Anchorage, AK	$58,340	105.4	—	—
22	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$58,230	99.6	50	1.16×
23	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$58,110	103.6	320	0.72×
24	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$58,110	111.1	210	1.04×
25	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$58,000	100.1	210	0.74×
26	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$57,660	111.9	200	1.34×
27	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$57,360	101.8	90	1.26×
28	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$57,320	113.6	760	1.26×
29	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$57,100	110.5	40	1.15×
30	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$57,000	102.6	270	0.95×
31	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$56,940	106.7	90	0.86×
32	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$56,520	100.3	30	1.35×
33	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$56,180	100.3	100	0.54×
34	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$55,530	100.9	90	1.15×
35	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	$55,490	100.0	40	1.56×
36	Rochester, NY	$55,410	97.0	40	0.84×
37	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$54,310	103.2	50	1.98×
38	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$54,070	95.8	50	0.99×
39	Kansas City, MO-KS	$53,930	92.5	130	1.19×
40	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	$53,080	98.7	30	0.95×

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 locksmiths and safe repairers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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