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title: "Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairer"
description: "Repair, maintain, or install electric motors, wiring, or switches."
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# Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairer

**Category:** Installation, Maintenance, and Repair · **SOC code:** 49-2092 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 49-2092.00

Repair, maintain, or install electric motors, wiring, or switches.

Also advertised as: Electric Motor Mechanic; Electric Motor Repairman; Electric Motor Winder; Electro Mechanic; Maintenance Technician; Power Tool Repair Technician; Repair Technician; Service Technician.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $56,210 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $27.02/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $37,100 to $85,200, with the middle half between $45,190 and $69,090
- **Total US employment:** 14,450
- **Typical entry education:** High school
- **Preparation required:** Some preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +4.4% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 1,400 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 59/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 14,450 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $37,100 |
| 25th | $45,190 |
| 50th (median) | $56,210 |
| 75th | $69,090 |
| 90th | $85,200 |
| Mean (average) | $58,610 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IL | $79,320 | $79,353 | 840 |
| WI | $75,550 | $80,291 | 260 |
| NY | $66,710 | $61,814 | 410 |
| CA | $66,040 | $59,646 | 810 |
| CT | $63,970 | $61,741 | 180 |
| VA | $63,690 | $62,995 | 570 |
| NH | $63,030 | $60,510 | Not published by BLS |
| MA | $62,710 | $59,296 | Not published by BLS |
| CO | $61,570 | $59,747 | 640 |
| ND | $61,160 | $68,751 | 160 |
| ME | $61,090 | $62,947 | Not published by BLS |
| NJ | $60,750 | $55,834 | 100 |
| LA | $60,420 | $68,498 | 270 |
| TX | $60,290 | $62,118 | 2,250 |
| NV | $60,230 | $60,243 | 30 |

29 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 44 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/electric-motor-power-tool-and-related-repairer/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/electric-motor-power-tool-and-related-repairer.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 16,100 in the 2025–2035 base year to 16,800 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 700 jobs, or +4.4%. About as fast as average: 4.4% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 1,400 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** High school diploma or equivalent (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Some preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** Less than 5 years.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Moderate-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 39.2% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 30.9% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 19.8% |
| Some College Courses | 8.3% |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 1.9% |

## What the work involves

- Inspect and test equipment to locate damage or worn parts and diagnose malfunctions, or read work orders or schematic drawings to determine required repairs.
- Disassemble defective equipment so that repairs can be made, using hand tools.
- Record repairs required, parts used, and labor time.
- Lift units or parts such as motors or generators, using cranes or chain hoists, or signal crane operators to lift heavy parts or subassemblies.
- Adjust working parts, such as fan belts, contacts, and springs, using hand tools and gauges.
- Scrape and clean units or parts, using cleaning solvents and equipment such as buffing wheels.
- Read service guides to find information needed to perform repairs.
- Measure velocity, horsepower, revolutions per minute (rpm), amperage, circuitry, and voltage of units or parts to diagnose problems, using ammeters, voltmeters, wattmeters, and other testing devices.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Critical Thinking — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Repairing — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Equipment Maintenance — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Troubleshooting — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Equipment Selection — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Quality Control Analysis — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operations Monitoring — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operation and Control — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Mechanical — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Production and Processing — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Finger Dexterity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Manual Dexterity — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Arm-Hand Steadiness — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Information Ordering — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Realistic (R), Conventional (C).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| R — Realistic | 7.00 |
| C — Conventional | 4.25 |
| I — Investigative | 2.73 |
| S — Social | 1.19 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.01 |
| A — Artistic | 1.00 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 90.1 |
| ISTP | 78.7 |
| ISFJ | 74.1 |
| ESTJ | 71.8 |
| INTJ | 68.2 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ. The bank also flags this occupation as introvert-friendly, meaning O\*NET work-context ratings put it low on public contact and performing for the public.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Engine and Other Machine Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/engine-and-other-machine-assembler) — median $53,710
- [Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronic-equipment-assembler) — median $45,930
- [Industrial Machinery Mechanic](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-machinery-mechanic) — median $64,520
- [Control and Valve Installer and Repairer, Except Mechanical Door](https://nuecareer.com/careers/control-and-valve-installer-and-repairer) — median $74,340
- [Electromechanical Equipment Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electromechanical-equipment-assembler) — median $45,930
- [Maintenance Worker, Machinery](https://nuecareer.com/careers/maintenance-worker-machinery) — median $60,850
- [Aircraft Structure, Surface, Rigging, and Systems Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/aircraft-structure-surface-rigging-and-systems-assembler) — median $65,380
- [Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanic](https://nuecareer.com/careers/outdoor-power-equipment-and-other-small-engine-mechanic) — median $47,880
- [Rail Car Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/rail-car-repairer) — median $67,530
- [Electrical and Electronics Installer and Repairer, Transportation Equipment](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronics-installer-and-repairer-transportation-equipment) — median $84,890

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–2035 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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