Job Description: Maintenance Repairers are skilled in many craft areas such as plumbing, carpentry, electrical work, painting, and air conditioning and heating. Maintenance Repairers repair and maintain buildings, mechanical equipment, and machinery in hospitals, schools, restaurants, factories, office building, retail stores, and wholesale firms. They perform preventive maintenance to assure that everything operates smoothly. Repairers use all types of common hand and power tools as well as specialized tools and electrical test equipment.
Wages - Statewide:
To give you an idea of how much you might earn, we have given you the average hourly wages and average yearly wages for this career throughout California. Wages can vary greatly in different parts of the State.
Hourly Average Wages:
$
19.42
Yearly Average Wages:
$
40,404
Source: California Occupational Employment and Wage Data, 2009
Job Openings:
An average of 1960 job openings will be available statewide per year. The number of openings includes both new jobs and replacement openings as workers leave the occupation.
Source: California Occupational Employment Projections 2006 - 2016
