How much do helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers make in Massachusetts?

The median wage for helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers in Massachusetts is $42,200 a year, or $20.29 an hour.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

BLS’s mean (average) wage for helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers in Massachusetts is $44,370 a year. The median is $42,200.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

The median hourly wage is $20.29. At a full-time year that lines up with about $42,200 a year.

BLS May 2025; hourly and annual figures come from the same survey.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in Massachusetts, the lowest-paid 10% of helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers earn under $34,320 a year and a quarter earn under $37,250 ($16.50 and $17.91 an hour).

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

The overall salary range for helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers in Massachusetts spans from $34,320 for the bottom 10% to $53,860 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $37,250 and $50,070 a year, with the overall median at $42,200.

On the median wage of $42,200, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $34,298 a year, or roughly $2,858 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 18.7%.

Massachusetts takes $1,790 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $42,200, estimated take-home pay is roughly $2,858 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $1,319 net.

Yes. The median in Massachusetts is 6.5% above the national median of $39,630.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Massachusetts sit at 105.8 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.41 times the median household income of $103,960. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Massachusetts run at 105.8 against a national average of 100, with rents at 128.1, so $42,200 here buys about what $39,903 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $53,860 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $34,320.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of Massachusetts someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

The survey counted 1,290 of these jobs in Massachusetts for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 42% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.