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Pay · 49-2096

Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles earn $48,420 a year at the midpoint

Starting pay is close to the middle here: the 25th percentile is $43,310 against a median of $48,420, so the first years are not a long climb.

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$48,420median a year · United States
$23.28an hour $51,560average 8,550people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$43,31025th $48,420median $58,50075th
$35,59010th percentile $70,17090th percentile
$43,310a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$64,570best-paying state · Kentucky
$26,640lowest-paying state · Pennsylvania
+33%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.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • 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.”

A short climbThe 25th percentile, $43,310, is within 11% of the median.
State matters a lotThe same job pays $64,570 in Kentucky and $26,640 in Pennsylvania — a gap of $37,930 a year.

Motor vehicle electronic equipment installer earnings, from starting pay to the top 10%

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Motor vehicle electronic equipment installer wages in each state

The 28 states where the most people do this work, of 39 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.80 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
New York $60,220 $47,100 $47,100 — $81,770 290
Georgia $59,550 $40,500 $40,500 — $99,310 300
Washington $59,010 $48,880 $48,880 — $59,080 120
Indiana $56,730 $42,250 $42,250 — $75,910 470
Oregon $56,000 $45,260 $45,260 — $63,350 200
Idaho $55,760 $44,460 $44,460 — $59,630 90
Minnesota $49,740 $38,370 $38,370 — $74,610 250
New Mexico $49,300 $36,750 $36,750 — $60,610 160
Virginia $49,210 $39,180 $39,180 — $61,240 440
Tennessee $49,140 $45,840 $45,840 — $61,880 210
Texas $48,730 $32,640 $32,640 — $68,410 1,210
California $48,500 $34,320 $34,320 — $88,330 960
South Carolina $48,230 $19,570 $19,570 — $54,040 230
Michigan $48,070 $36,950 $36,950 — $56,560 80
Florida $47,980 $40,110 $40,110 — $73,390 660
Hawaii $47,780 $31,970 $31,970 — $77,680 70
Massachusetts $47,590 $37,900 $37,900 — $58,830 220
North Dakota $47,310 $44,990 $44,990 — $60,730 100
Illinois $47,150 $39,540 $39,540 — $58,200 170
North Carolina $46,850 $37,470 $37,470 — $65,440 190
Ohio $45,120 $36,430 $36,430 — $60,430 230
Connecticut $44,980 $35,360 $35,360 — $51,630 90
Arkansas $41,510 $32,960 $32,960 — $50,590 80
New Jersey $41,070 $35,660 $35,660 — $54,090 170
Missouri $38,760 $34,530 $34,530 — $62,090 70
Alabama $38,520 $36,950 $36,950 — $44,810 70
Mississippi $38,500 $30,250 $30,250 — $55,940 90
Kansas $33,380 $32,330 $32,330 — $44,180 90

No estimate is published for 1 states: the survey withholds a figure when too few employers report it. Nothing has been filled in for them.

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Place 559 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 29% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 557 Models $48,470
  2. 558 Healthcare Support Workers, All Other $48,430
  3. 559 Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles $48,420
  4. 560 Sales and Related Workers, All Other $48,280
  5. 561 Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders $48,250

Nearby work, and what it pays

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

Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles$48,420
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay$103,020+$54,600 Avionics Technicians$82,280+$33,860 Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment$74,090+$25,670 Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers$60,070+$11,650 Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers$56,210+$7,790

Motor vehicle electronic equipment installer pay rate, hourly to annual

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Questions people ask most

What is a motor vehicle electronic equipment installer’s yearly income?

A motor vehicle electronic equipment installer makes a median of $48,420 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $43,310 and $58,500.

What is a motor vehicle electronic equipment installer’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $23.28 an hour; the average is $51,560 a year.

What is the starting pay for a motor vehicle electronic equipment installer?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $43,310 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $35,590.

Which state pays electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles the most?

Kentucky, with a median of $64,570 a year.

How many people work as electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles?

About 8,550 in the United States — number 559 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $100 of what electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles earn — $48,420 a year — but not always the same spread.

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