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Maintenance and Repair Workers, General earn $49,590 a year at the midpoint

One of the largest occupations in the country — about 1,529,700 people — with a midpoint of $49,590 a year.

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$49,590median a year · United States
$23.84an hour $53,780average 1,529,700people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$40,84025th $49,590median $62,62075th
$35,35010th percentile $77,18090th percentile
$40,840a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$60,310best-paying state · District of Columbia
$38,890lowest-paying state · West Virginia
+22%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.
  • 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.
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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.”

General maintenance and repair worker earnings, from starting pay up to the top 10%

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General maintenance and repair worker pay rate, hourly to annual

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$49,587a year

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.

Maintenance and Repair Workers, General$49,590
Signal and Track Switch Repairers$92,460+$42,870 Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door$74,340+$24,750 Commercial Divers$72,990+$23,400 Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other$68,990+$19,400 Watch and Clock Repairers$67,230+$17,640 Millwrights$65,700+$16,110

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  • Performed routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors, or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, or doing other preventive maintenance actions.
  • Inspected, operated, or tested machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions.
  • Adjusted functional parts of devices or control instruments, using hand tools, levels, plumb bobs, or straightedges.

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Place 533 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 32% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 531 Agricultural Technicians $49,630
  2. 532 Dental Laboratory Technicians $49,610
  3. 533 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General $49,590
  4. 534 Information and Record Clerks, All Other $49,500
  5. 535 Hazardous Materials Removal Workers $49,450

General maintenance and repair worker wages, state by state

The 45 states where the most people do this work, of 51 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.55 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
District of Columbia $60,310 $42,100 $42,100 — $84,390 4,860
Alaska $60,270 $38,260 $38,260 — $90,900 4,590
Minnesota $59,200 $38,630 $38,630 — $79,040 29,660
Washington $59,160 $41,760 $41,760 — $83,930 32,450
Massachusetts $58,320 $38,750 $38,750 — $80,190 29,830
Hawaii $57,960 $37,930 $37,930 — $80,620 8,030
New York $57,790 $37,010 $37,010 — $83,570 119,650
Connecticut $57,620 $38,460 $38,460 — $82,090 11,700
California $57,000 $38,810 $38,810 — $82,710 143,060
Illinois $56,720 $36,120 $36,120 — $80,740 66,600
Wisconsin $55,810 $35,870 $35,870 — $75,910 30,880
New Jersey $54,810 $37,500 $37,500 — $81,190 37,350
Oregon $54,350 $38,630 $38,630 — $78,480 16,160
Ohio $53,420 $35,320 $35,320 — $76,270 64,770
New Hampshire $52,830 $37,620 $37,620 — $74,910 5,780
Nevada $52,360 $36,170 $36,170 — $80,600 16,520
Iowa $52,160 $36,570 $36,570 — $74,490 16,500
Maryland $51,490 $36,890 $36,890 — $75,740 23,730
Colorado $51,280 $38,700 $38,700 — $76,150 22,960
Nebraska $50,700 $36,240 $36,240 — $69,210 9,850
Utah $50,450 $35,520 $35,520 — $77,060 16,090
Indiana $49,890 $35,170 $35,170 — $75,720 34,480
Virginia $49,470 $34,640 $34,640 — $77,260 34,540
Maine $49,430 $37,440 $37,440 — $75,570 5,820
Pennsylvania $49,290 $34,960 $34,960 — $75,220 55,590
Missouri $48,370 $34,050 $34,050 — $75,620 31,180
Idaho $48,190 $35,830 $35,830 — $75,870 8,200
North Carolina $47,910 $33,630 $33,630 — $70,640 43,440
South Carolina $47,880 $32,950 $32,950 — $74,530 28,020
Georgia $47,680 $33,920 $33,920 — $72,480 48,430
Arizona $47,620 $35,810 $35,810 — $76,360 39,000
Michigan $47,580 $35,050 $35,050 — $70,570 39,490
Tennessee $47,240 $33,810 $33,810 — $68,990 35,790
Kansas $47,210 $33,570 $33,570 — $66,830 12,730
Montana $46,870 $34,790 $34,790 — $72,300 5,420
Kentucky $46,810 $30,470 $30,470 — $75,740 22,190
Texas $46,670 $30,950 $30,950 — $74,220 140,580
Florida $46,060 $34,200 $34,200 — $67,680 111,530
New Mexico $45,760 $30,920 $30,920 — $71,380 9,320
Mississippi $44,350 $28,570 $28,570 — $70,110 14,550
Louisiana $43,960 $28,110 $28,110 — $75,880 21,490
Alabama $43,630 $29,070 $29,070 — $63,810 16,660
Arkansas $43,400 $29,140 $29,140 — $63,130 12,410
Oklahoma $42,750 $29,380 $29,380 — $65,940 18,670
West Virginia $38,890 $28,170 $28,170 — $68,240 8,060

Questions people ask

What is a general maintenance and repair worker’s yearly income?

A general maintenance and repair worker makes a median of $49,590 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $40,840 and $62,620.

What is a general maintenance and repair worker’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $23.84 an hour; the average is $53,780 a year.

What is the starting pay for a general maintenance and repair worker?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $40,840 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $35,350.

Which state pays maintenance and repair workers, general the most?

District of Columbia, with a median of $60,310 a year.

How many people work as maintenance and repair workers, general?

About 1,529,700 in the United States — number 533 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $100 of what maintenance and repair workers, general earn — $49,590 a year — but not always the same spread.

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