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Maintenance Workers, Machinery earn $60,850 a year at the midpoint

Across roughly 60,020 people in this work, the midpoint is $60,850 a year, with most starting near $48,920.

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$60,850median a year · United States
$29.25an hour $64,610average 60,020people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$48,92025th $60,850median $75,20075th
$42,00010th percentile $88,55090th percentile
$48,920a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$84,620best-paying state · Wyoming
$36,240lowest-paying state · New Mexico
+39%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $84,620 in Wyoming and $36,240 in New Mexico — a gap of $48,380 a year.

Machinery maintenance worker earnings, from starting pay to the highest 10%

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Machinery maintenance worker pay rate, hourly and yearly

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$60,840a year

Machinery maintenance worker wages, state by state

Across 46 states the median ranges by 2.33 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Wyoming $84,620 $60,740 $60,740 — $112,010 280
New Hampshire $77,070 $45,870 $45,870 — $83,890 130
Kentucky $76,710 $48,980 $48,980 — $162,460 2,920
Nevada $75,500 $45,350 $45,350 — $92,950 750
Rhode Island $72,040 $45,470 $45,470 — $83,780 110
California $67,840 $46,000 $46,000 — $93,440 4,130
New York $67,610 $47,880 $47,880 — $104,360 2,760
Virginia $65,500 $46,570 $46,570 — $95,300 1,420
South Carolina $64,910 $46,760 $46,760 — $79,060 960
Tennessee $64,790 $43,510 $43,510 — $83,480 800
Iowa $64,760 $49,640 $49,640 — $79,340 900
Wisconsin $64,310 $46,150 $46,150 — $79,740 420
Colorado $64,010 $47,880 $47,880 — $85,980 740
Missouri $63,720 $48,070 $48,070 — $84,430 2,180
Connecticut $63,250 $43,610 $43,610 — $99,500 410
Minnesota $63,020 $44,000 $44,000 — $82,030 730
Washington $62,970 $51,690 $51,690 — $94,420 700
Louisiana $62,640 $40,930 $40,930 — $92,510 1,410
District of Columbia $62,520 $47,270 $47,270 — $62,550 80
Alaska $61,290 $49,720 $49,720 — $103,760 40
Nebraska $61,190 $44,140 $44,140 — $77,320 650
Pennsylvania $61,080 $45,740 $45,740 — $98,840 1,260
Utah $60,850 $42,580 $42,580 — $79,700 1,180
North Carolina $60,580 $42,540 $42,540 — $78,230 4,750
Alabama $60,560 $46,680 $46,680 — $77,510 420
Kansas $60,160 $45,040 $45,040 — $78,500 1,040
West Virginia $60,020 $38,370 $38,370 — $88,750 790
Michigan $59,590 $41,400 $41,400 — $78,890 1,640
Maryland $59,570 $40,020 $40,020 — $77,730 1,870
Illinois $59,300 $43,190 $43,190 — $92,060 560
Ohio $59,280 $38,330 $38,330 — $85,400 2,330
Texas $59,280 $38,440 $38,440 — $90,650 8,800
Oklahoma $58,970 $38,740 $38,740 — $76,530 1,530
New Jersey $57,920 $38,800 $38,800 — $72,480 310
Georgia $57,730 $38,950 $38,950 — $81,990 2,900
Oregon $57,440 $43,210 $43,210 — $88,920 430
Idaho $56,250 $43,190 $43,190 — $84,370 170
Arizona $56,130 $43,710 $43,710 — $80,940 440
Massachusetts $55,000 $41,400 $41,400 — $77,930 320
Mississippi $54,380 $36,120 $36,120 — $72,820 450
Arkansas $53,250 $41,410 $41,410 — $73,750 770
Maine $52,300 $45,930 $45,930 — $70,200 490
Florida $51,900 $40,370 $40,370 — $83,670 2,830
Indiana $48,760 $44,230 $44,230 — $72,550 1,780
South Dakota $45,240 $32,460 $32,460 — $60,530 50
New Mexico $36,240 $36,240 $36,240 — $73,580 —

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Related work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Maintenance Workers, Machinery$60,850
Millwrights$65,700+$4,850 Industrial Machinery Mechanics$64,520+$3,670 Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons$61,290+$440

Ranked 390 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 51% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 388 Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners $61,160
  2. 389 Heating, air conditioning and refrigeration mechanics $61,010
  3. 390 Maintenance Workers, Machinery $60,850
  4. 391 Clergy $60,810
  5. 392 Paramedics $60,600

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  • Dismantled machines and removed parts for repair, using hand tools, chain falls, jacks, cranes, or hoists.
  • Reassembled machines after the completion of repair or maintenance work.
  • Recorded production, repair, and machine maintenance information.

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Questions people ask most

What is a machinery maintenance worker’s yearly income?

A machinery maintenance worker makes a median of $60,850 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $48,920 and $75,200.

What is a machinery maintenance worker’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $29.25 an hour; the average is $64,610 a year.

What is the starting pay for a machinery maintenance worker?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $48,920 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $42,000.

Which state pays maintenance workers, machinery the most?

Wyoming, with a median of $84,620 a year.

How many people work as maintenance workers, machinery?

About 60,020 in the United States — number 390 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays about the same

Median pay within $250 of what maintenance workers, machinery earn — $60,850 a year — but not always the same spread.

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