--- title: "Mechanical Door Repairer" description: "Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics." canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/mechanical-door-repairer" last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z" --- # Mechanical Door Repairer **Category:** Installation, Maintenance, and Repair · **SOC code:** 49-9011 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 49-9011.00 Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics. Also advertised as: Commercial Door Installer; Commercial Installer; Door Installer; Door Serviceman; Garage Door Installer; Garage Door Technician (Garage Door Tech); Installation Technician (Installation Tech); Installer. ## At a glance - **Median annual wage:** $55,720 (BLS OEWS, May 2025) - **Median hourly wage:** $26.79/hr - **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $38,490 to $78,260, with the middle half between $46,610 and $65,630 - **Total US employment:** 27,120 - **Typical entry education:** High school - **Preparation required:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed" - **Projected growth:** +6.4% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035) - **Annual job openings:** 2,100 openings a year - **AI-resilience score:** 73/100 — 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 27,120 US jobs. | Percentile | Annual wage | | --- | --- | | 10th | $38,490 | | 25th | $46,610 | | 50th (median) | $55,720 | | 75th | $65,630 | | 90th | $78,260 | | Mean (average) | $57,540 | ### 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AK | $103,550 | $101,164 | Not published by BLS | | NJ | $67,150 | $61,716 | 1,290 | | IL | $65,090 | $65,117 | 1,770 | | UT | $64,660 | $65,403 | Not published by BLS | | CO | $62,460 | $60,610 | 570 | | NH | $62,390 | $59,895 | 150 | | ME | $61,140 | $62,998 | Not published by BLS | | IN | $60,560 | $64,889 | 780 | | NY | $60,560 | $56,115 | 1,360 | | WA | $59,930 | $56,003 | 550 | | IA | $59,640 | $67,957 | 330 | | CA | $59,560 | $53,793 | 2,680 | | MN | $58,870 | $59,693 | 110 | | OH | $58,250 | $62,787 | 1,190 | | KY | $57,840 | $64,153 | 180 | 31 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 46 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/mechanical-door-repairer/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/mechanical-door-repairer. ## Outlook BLS projects employment to move from 28,400 in the 2025–2035 base year to 30,300 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 1,800 jobs, or +6.4%. Faster than average: 6.4% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 2,100 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:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed". - **Related work experience typically required:** None. - **Typical on-the-job training:** Moderate-term on-the-job training. ## What the work involves - Complete required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required. - Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools. - Install door frames, rails, steel rolling curtains, electronic-eye mechanisms, or electric door openers and closers, using power tools, hand tools, and electronic test equipment. - Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make simple adjustments to electric openers. - Inspect job sites, assessing headroom, side room, or other conditions to determine appropriateness of door for a given location. - Remove or disassemble defective automatic mechanical door closers, using hand tools. - Wind large springs with upward motion of arm. - Set doors into place or stack hardware sections into openings after rail or track installation. ## Skills and knowledge ### Essential skills - Critical Thinking — importance 3.3 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 - Active Learning — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Monitoring — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Writing — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Mathematics — importance 2.5 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. - Installation — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Repairing — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Quality Control Analysis — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Operations Monitoring — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Coordination — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Operation and Control — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Troubleshooting — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale ### Knowledge areas - Administration and Management — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Building and Construction — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Mechanical — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - English Language — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Mathematics — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale ### Abilities - Manual Dexterity — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Arm-Hand Steadiness — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Near Vision — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Finger Dexterity — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Trunk Strength — 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 | 6.87 | | C — Conventional | 3.96 | | I — Investigative | 1.78 | | S — Social | 1.46 | | A — Artistic | 1.00 | | E — Enterprising | 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 | 87.0 | | ISFJ | 75.4 | | ISTP | 74.6 | | ESTJ | 72.2 | | INTJ | 62.4 | Best-fitting types: ISTJ. ## Related occupations O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order. - [Glazier](https://nuecareer.com/careers/glazier) — median $57,080 - [Elevator Installer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/elevator-installer) — median $109,910 - [Locksmith and Safe Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/locksmith-and-safe-repairer) — median $51,320 - [Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/helpers-installation-maintenance-and-repair-worker) — median $39,630 - [Maintenance and Repair Worker, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/maintenance-and-repair-worker-general) — median $49,590 - [Sheet Metal Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sheet-metal-worker) — median $61,800 - [Rail Car Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/rail-car-repairer) — median $67,530 - [Structural Iron and Steel Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/structural-iron-and-steel-worker) — median $62,780 - [Electrician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrician) — median $63,190 - [Electronic Equipment Installer and Repairer, Motor Vehicles](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electronic-equipment-installer-and-repairer-motor-vehicles) — median $48,420 ## 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/ - **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area --- 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). O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology JSON representation of this page: https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/mechanical-door-repairer