Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators salary

SOC 51-2090 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$44,650

per year, nationally

Middle half

$37,380–$51,200

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

1.4M

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-0.1%

156,300 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.

$33,280$64,880

10th: $33,280
25th: $37,380
Median: $44,650
75th: $51,200
90th: $64,880

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 miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators 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	$50,330	109.9	80	0.01×
2	Hawaii	$49,630	110.0	420	0.07×
3	Alaska	$49,390	102.4	220	0.07×
4	Nevada	$49,050	100.0	11,290	0.81×
5	Iowa	$48,920	87.8	19,540	1.39×
6	Washington	$48,260	107.0	16,990	0.53×
7	Kentucky	$47,950	90.2	47,320	2.62×
8	California	$47,720	110.7	98,390	0.60×
9	North Dakota	$47,250	89.0	4,410	1.14×
10	New Hampshire	$46,940	104.2	6,130	0.99×
11	Minnesota	$46,920	98.6	44,810	1.68×
12	Oregon	$46,910	103.4	11,120	0.63×
13	Massachusetts	$46,720	105.8	11,600	0.35×
14	Missouri	$46,480	90.8	32,850	1.24×
15	Colorado	$46,150	103.1	9,180	0.35×
16	Maine	$45,970	97.0	3,910	0.68×
17	Ohio	$45,720	92.8	93,480	1.86×
18	Wisconsin	$45,670	94.1	46,360	1.74×
19	Indiana	$45,550	93.3	85,610	2.96×
20	South Carolina	$45,500	93.7	42,150	2.02×
21	Nebraska	$45,470	90.1	7,240	0.78×
22	Maryland	$45,450	105.0	6,880	0.28×
23	Kansas	$45,220	90.1	13,830	1.06×
24	Connecticut	$45,170	103.6	10,850	0.71×
25	Arizona	$45,080	100.7	23,540	0.80×
26	Louisiana	$45,070	88.2	3,400	0.19×
27	Montana	$44,940	94.6	1,510	0.33×
28	Virginia	$44,900	101.1	21,750	0.59×
29	Michigan	$44,690	96.2	112,310	2.82×
30	Tennessee	$44,630	91.9	58,760	1.98×
31	New York	$44,580	107.9	33,180	0.38×
32	Idaho	$44,210	95.5	5,890	0.76×
33	Pennsylvania	$44,160	97.6	57,780	1.05×
34	Illinois	$44,140	100.0	76,460	1.39×
35	Utah	$44,040	98.9	19,110	1.22×
36	Vermont	$43,980	98.0	1,380	0.50×
37	Delaware	$43,770	99.8	1,210	0.28×
38	South Dakota	$43,240	88.6	3,960	0.96×
39	Alabama	$42,700	88.8	53,280	2.79×
40	Wyoming	$40,720	92.7	1,200	0.47×
41	Oklahoma	$40,600	87.8	11,920	0.77×
42	Rhode Island	$40,590	102.3	2,790	0.62×
43	North Carolina	$40,330	94.3	46,670	1.05×
44	West Virginia	$39,850	89.5	3,480	0.55×
45	New Mexico	$39,340	92.2	1,550	0.20×
46	Mississippi	$39,070	87.0	16,800	1.60×
47	Florida	$38,410	103.4	42,060	0.47×
48	Texas	$38,320	97.1	93,650	0.74×
49	Georgia	$38,310	96.3	52,020	1.18×
50	New Jersey	$37,620	108.8	22,270	0.57×
51	Arkansas	$36,990	86.9	12,460	1.06×

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 miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

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	Lafayette, LA	$64,950	87.2	530	0.33×
2	Jackson, MS	$63,170	89.0	4,810	1.97×
3	Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN	$63,140	93.4	6,280	6.80×
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$60,250	115.6	17,700	0.83×
5	Lexington-Fayette, KY	$59,730	92.9	8,650	3.34×
6	Spartanburg, SC	$59,300	91.1	11,790	7.90×
7	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	$57,260	92.9	2,040	2.41×
8	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$56,400	96.3	20,770	2.09×
9	Grand Island, NE	$55,120	86.7	370	1.03×
10	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$55,120	95.0	6,170	3.14×
11	Kansas City, MO-KS	$54,990	92.5	13,770	1.39×
12	St. Joseph, MO-KS	$54,400	86.4	1,360	2.76×
13	Helena, MT	$53,710	95.7	140	0.34×
14	Urban Honolulu, HI	$53,500	111.0	320	0.08×
15	Tuscaloosa, AL	$53,050	87.7	7,320	7.47×
16	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$52,360	110.4	5,290	0.52×
17	St. Cloud, MN	$52,330	87.6	1,620	1.72×
18	Harrisonburg, VA	$52,260	94.9	340	0.58×
19	Grand Forks, ND-MN	$51,850	86.7	710	1.50×
20	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$51,320	105.6	380	0.44×
21	Fond du Lac, WI	$51,200	91.6	1,080	2.72×
22	Bismarck, ND	$50,750	91.0	310	0.48×
23	Elizabethtown, KY	$50,510	90.6	2,140	4.60×
24	Dubuque, IA	$50,320	87.3	800	1.52×
25	Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA	$50,310	87.1	1,610	2.11×
26	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$50,150	111.1	9,730	0.52×
27	Decatur, IL	$50,040	88.4	1,060	2.56×
28	Fairbanks-College, AK	$49,910	103.2	40	0.12×
29	Toledo, OH	$49,740	91.5	9,030	3.43×
30	Peoria, IL	$49,410	91.2	2,300	1.53×
31	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	$49,410	94.2	1,200	1.24×
32	Ames, IA	$49,360	88.8	470	0.94×
33	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$49,240	100.3	55,100	3.20×
34	Battle Creek, MI	$49,100	90.5	2,710	5.50×
35	Reno, NV	$49,050	101.0	7,550	3.03×
36	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$48,990	100.0	4,730	1.39×
37	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$48,940	102.4	400	0.85×
38	Casper, WY	$48,920	93.8	330	0.91×
39	Anchorage, AK	$48,670	105.4	130	0.08×
40	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$48,660	102.7	4,220	0.78×

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 miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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