AV Technician Salary: United States

What do these published wages mean for an offer?

Skilled Trades Headhunters reads the May 2025 figures for AV Technician in National as an offer reference, not a quote for a particular candidate. For AV Technician in National, the published median for SOC 49-2097, Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers, is $52,600 per year. The middle half of the AV Technician in National wage distribution runs from $44,490 to $67,300, a width of $22,810 per year; that spread shows how much published pay varies within the occupation and area, without assigning experience levels.

For the national AV Technician comparison, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA reports $51,210 per year while New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ reports $71,990 per year; these are the largest-employment metros with published medians for the occupation, rather than neighboring places to a national estimate. The United States AV Technician figure pools markets with different work scopes and schedules, so use the area table before setting a local offer.

The highest published medians among the selected national industry rows for Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers, read alongside AV Technician in National, are Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services at $88,360 per year (NAICS 541600); Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services at $64,110 per year (NAICS 54); Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services at $64,110 per year (NAICS 541000). Those AV Technician in National industry comparisons are national cross-sections, not local industry estimates; BLS does not give us a metro-by-industry wage cut here, and overlapping industry groups should not be added together.

The AV Technician in National median was $50,620 per year in May 2024, compared with $52,600 in May 2025, a published difference of $1,980. That AV Technician in National comparison is between separate BLS releases, not the raise paid to the same workers or a projection of next year's offer. Read the $50,620 and $52,600 AV Technician in National estimates with both dates visible, because the employers and workers represented by the survey can change.

Before offering $52,600 per year for AV Technician in National, separate on-call duties, overtime, travel reimbursement, tool replacement and any truck allowance separately; prevailing wage and union requirements must be checked against the actual assignment. The AV Technician in National BLS comparison includes ordinary wages and qualifying incentive pay, but leaves overtime, discretionary bonuses, benefits and relocation outside this wage figure. A candidate's take-home pay and the employer's total cost for AV Technician in National can therefore differ from the median without either number being an error.

The mapping for AV Technician in National is broader: BLS groups AV Technician within Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers; it does not publish this niche title or credential level separately. When calibrating a AV Technician in National opening, the work checks include AVIXA CTS/CTS-I; audiovisual systems/audiovisual systems/audiovisual systems certs; ask for evidence of that scope instead of using a percentile as a substitute for qualification. A broader occupation can combine jobs that a AV Technician in National buyer would screen separately, which is why the badge and SOC remain beside the figures.

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