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Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

SOC 49-9071 · 2024-2034

Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of a building in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; HVAC maintenance; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; repairing electrical or mechanical equipment; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$58,612per year
Projected openings
151,500
Projected change
+7.3%
Usually needs
High school diploma or equivalent

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Equipment Maintenance
  2. Repairing
  3. Troubleshooting
  4. Critical Thinking
  5. Active Learning
  6. Monitoring

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$66,0618,520
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$65,0077,560
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$64,6796,630
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$62,657850
Napa MSA (Napa County)$62,141920
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$62,1311,300
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$59,9753,010
Merced MSA (Merced County)$57,366890
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$57,3661,980
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$56,5758,140
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$56,52415,330
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$56,4521,820
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$55,908570
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$54,37729,450
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$53,03212,800
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$52,8372,730
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$52,26513,290
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$51,8212,080
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$51,615370
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$51,595480
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$51,4101,680
Chico MSA (Butte County)$50,619680
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$50,5472,700
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$50,4341,070
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$50,188990
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$49,7871,380
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$49,1911,300
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$48,894700
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$48,8731,270
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$48,4013,770

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$39,907
A quarter earn under
$47,640
Half earn under
$58,612
Three quarters earn under
$73,234
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$85,049

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Millwrights$80,1542,0100%
Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers$65,0922,580-13.3%
Power Plant Operators$107,6111,900-15.4%
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$74,80348,620+8.6%
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines$80,77118,430+6.8%
Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers$45,93310,870+2.2%

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