JRIJob Risk Index

Real salary data

What Maintenance and Repair Workers actually earn in 2026.

The median for Maintenance and Repair Worker is $45,760 across 131 real salary records (H-1B visa filings and tech job postings), updated Sep 14, 2026.

01 / By source

Real salary bands, by source.

Bands come from 131 real records. Each source has a different bias, disclosed below.

Approximate salary distribution$45,760
p25$41,600p50$45,760p75$55,630

Density curve fitted to the observed quartiles (log-normal). $41,600–$55,630 contains the middle 50% of records in the best-represented source; the shape between them is an approximation.

SourceRecords25th pctMedian75th pct
Job postings131$41,600$45,760$55,630

Salary data updated Sep 14, 2026. Bands are percentiles, not averages; n is the number of underlying records.

02 / By city

What Maintenance and Repair Workers earn, by city.

Real records; cities with at least 10 observations.

CityRecordsRange (p25–p75)Median
Albuquerque, NM16$41,236 – $63,453$44,720
Nashville, TN14$42,526 – $52,000$47,320
New York, NY14$42,120 – $55,520$46,088
Oklahoma City, OK13$33,332 – $62,774$43,472
Chicago, IL12$34,762 – $53,040$43,332
Los Angeles, CA11$43,680 – $60,126$52,000
Houston, TX10$36,400 – $61,009$46,972

03 / By state

What Maintenance and Repair Workers earn, by state.

StateRecordsRange (p25–p75)Median
CA21$43,680 – $55,297$48,880
NM16$41,236 – $63,453$44,720
NY15$40,040 – $55,318$45,781
TN14$42,526 – $52,000$47,320
OK13$33,332 – $62,774$43,472
IL12$34,762 – $53,040$43,332
TX10$36,400 – $61,009$46,972

04 / Context

How Maintenance and Repair Workers pay compares with similar roles.

ProfessionRiskMedianOutlook
Facilities ManagerCritical$72,800+3.8% (2024–34)
First-Line Supervisor of Housekeeping and Janitorial WorkersMedium$44,720+2.5% (2024–34)
Production SupervisorMedium$72,000+1.2% (2024–34)
Security GuardCritical$42,474+0.4% (2024–34)

05 / Next step

How to move up the pay band.

The skills below appear most often in higher-paid roles:

06 / FAQ

Salary questions, answered.

01Why are the bands different from the BLS median?
The BLS median covers all Maintenance and Repair Worker in the US. These bands come from real records with known biases — H-1B filings skew to visa-eligible (high-skill) roles and tech postings skew to tech employers — so they sit above the national median. We disclose the source of every band.
02How often is this data updated?
The dataset refreshes weekly from live job postings and quarterly from new H-1B disclosures.

Methodology