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Industrial Machinery Mechanics earn $64,520 a year at the midpoint

The middle of the pay scale for industrial machinery mechanics is $64,520. A typical start is nearer $55,010; the top tenth earn about $95,170.

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$64,520median a year · United States
$31.02an hour $68,460average 439,640people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$55,01025th $64,520median $78,78075th
$46,12010th percentile $95,17090th percentile
$55,010a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$87,670best-paying state · District of Columbia
$57,760lowest-paying state · Mississippi
+36%top state against the national median
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  • 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.
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  • 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.”

Industrial machinery mechanic earnings, from starting pay to the top 10%

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$64,522a year

No. 342 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 57% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 340 Surgical Technologists $64,650
  2. 341 Archivists $64,550
  3. 342 Industrial Machinery Mechanics $64,520
  4. 343 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses $64,400
  5. 344 Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education $64,370

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  • Repaired or maintained the operating condition of industrial production or processing machinery or equipment.
  • Repaired or replaced broken or malfunctioning components of machinery or equipment.
  • Cleaned, lubricated, or adjusted parts, equipment, or machinery.

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Adjacent work, and what it pays

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

Industrial Machinery Mechanics$64,520
Signal and Track Switch Repairers$92,460+$27,940 Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door$74,340+$9,820 Commercial Divers$72,990+$8,470 Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other$68,990+$4,470 Watch and Clock Repairers$67,230+$2,710 Millwrights$65,700+$1,180

Industrial machinery mechanic wages across the states

The 38 states where the most people do this work, of 51 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.34 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Washington $77,220 $49,450 $49,450 — $112,410 10,710
Illinois $76,200 $49,230 $49,230 — $102,590 12,100
Oregon $75,670 $53,290 $53,290 — $99,470 7,070
Colorado $75,600 $50,470 $50,470 — $101,590 7,260
Arizona $74,790 $51,240 $51,240 — $100,810 5,020
New Jersey $74,760 $48,680 $48,680 — $99,440 8,380
California $74,400 $47,880 $47,880 — $107,700 26,830
Massachusetts $72,840 $49,230 $49,230 — $98,350 6,130
Minnesota $71,960 $52,040 $52,040 — $97,600 6,510
Maryland $71,870 $47,620 $47,620 — $96,450 2,880
Utah $70,720 $47,870 $47,870 — $102,800 4,040
New York $69,740 $47,820 $47,820 — $101,360 12,740
Missouri $67,390 $45,190 $45,190 — $104,110 5,420
Wisconsin $66,620 $49,360 $49,360 — $88,790 13,870
North Dakota $65,990 $51,210 $51,210 — $104,350 2,560
Kansas $65,830 $45,910 $45,910 — $90,640 7,700
Ohio $65,130 $47,580 $47,580 — $91,540 21,950
Tennessee $65,010 $45,530 $45,530 — $88,610 12,850
Kentucky $64,560 $46,050 $46,050 — $85,320 11,540
Iowa $64,400 $47,770 $47,770 — $82,780 6,050
Michigan $64,250 $47,080 $47,080 — $91,270 17,310
Nebraska $64,110 $49,130 $49,130 — $83,320 2,880
Virginia $64,020 $46,060 $46,060 — $92,210 9,470
Indiana $63,950 $47,860 $47,860 — $87,300 14,960
Pennsylvania $63,840 $47,510 $47,510 — $84,620 22,160
Idaho $62,860 $47,270 $47,270 — $90,580 2,750
North Carolina $62,430 $43,550 $43,550 — $81,970 15,720
South Carolina $62,330 $45,060 $45,060 — $83,050 9,890
Texas $61,930 $41,580 $41,580 — $95,770 56,950
Alabama $61,920 $42,940 $42,940 — $91,840 17,850
West Virginia $61,710 $44,860 $44,860 — $93,730 3,150
Oklahoma $61,540 $46,210 $46,210 — $90,700 6,250
Georgia $61,130 $44,730 $44,730 — $83,890 14,230
New Mexico $60,670 $41,290 $41,290 — $84,480 2,780
Florida $60,650 $43,470 $43,470 — $84,000 17,120
Louisiana $60,260 $37,790 $37,790 — $88,490 7,410
Arkansas $59,760 $39,180 $39,180 — $81,020 6,270
Mississippi $57,760 $38,880 $38,880 — $86,930 4,460

Questions people ask most

What is an industrial machinery mechanic’s yearly income?

An industrial machinery mechanic makes a median of $64,520 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $55,010 and $78,780.

What is an industrial machinery mechanic’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $31.02 an hour; the average is $68,460 a year.

What is the starting pay for an industrial machinery mechanic?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $55,010 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $46,120.

Which state pays industrial machinery mechanics the most?

District of Columbia, with a median of $87,670 a year.

How many people work as industrial machinery mechanics?

About 439,640 in the United States — number 342 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Jobs that pay about the same

Median pay within $190 of what industrial machinery mechanics earn — $64,520 a year — but not always the same spread.

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