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

The median wage for helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers in Rhode Island is $45,240 a year, or $21.75 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 Rhode Island is $44,760 a year. The median is $45,240.

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 $21.75. At a full-time year that lines up with about $45,240 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 Rhode Island, the lowest-paid 10% of helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers earn under $33,900 a year and a quarter earn under $36,470 ($16.30 and $17.53 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 Rhode Island spans from $33,900 for the bottom 10% to $53,050 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $36,470 and $49,760 a year, with the overall median at $45,240.

On the median wage of $45,240, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $37,434 a year, or roughly $3,119 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 17.3%.

Rhode Island takes $1,097 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $45,240, estimated take-home pay is roughly $3,119 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 $1,440 net.

Yes. The median in Rhode Island is 14.2% above the national median of $39,630.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Rhode Island sit at 102.3 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.52 times the median household income of $87,796. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Rhode Island run at 102.3 against a national average of 100, with rents at 105.6, so $45,240 here buys about what $44,232 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $53,050 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $33,900.

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

The survey counted 140 of these jobs in Rhode Island for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 53% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.