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Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians · SOC 49-3011

Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians Salary in the San Francisco Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area

Figures describe the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not San Francisco city limits.

Median annual wage$93,400
Median hourly wage$44.90

Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area earned a median of $93,400 per year ($44.90 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $62,320 at the 10th percentile to $134,180 at the 90th. BLS estimates 940 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians in the San Francisco metro area earn more than $93,400 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $77,450 and $124,060.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$62,320$77,450$93,400$124,060$134,180
Hourly$29.96$37.23$44.90$59.65$64.51

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • San Francisco metro areathis metro area
    $93,400
  • Californiastate (CA)
    $86,100
  • United Statesnational
    $79,870

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +8% vs California overall and +17% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$43,680$71,500$99,320$127,140Rome, GA — $43,680Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $44,190San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $45,130Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $47,180McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $47,840Spartanburg, SC — $50,050Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI — $50,840Burlington, NC — $51,640Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $54,690Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $57,840Jefferson City, MO — $58,190Wilmington, NC — $58,670Gainesville, FL — $58,840Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $59,100Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ — $59,270Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $59,360Macon-Bibb County, GA — $60,450South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $60,680Clarksville, TN-KY — $60,710Springfield, IL — $60,860Great Falls, MT — $60,930Naples-Marco Island, FL — $60,990Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $61,020Birmingham, AL — $61,040Dothan, AL — $61,060Coeur d'Alene, ID — $61,250Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL — $61,590Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $61,620Charleston, WV — $61,650Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $61,980Ann Arbor, MI — $62,140Boise City, ID — $62,190Springfield, MO — $62,770Fort Smith, AR-OK — $63,170Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $63,280Billings, MT — $63,570Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $63,580Visalia, CA — $64,060Lexington-Fayette, KY — $64,290Greensboro-High Point, NC — $64,520Bozeman, MT — $64,530Huntsville, AL — $64,910Tallahassee, FL — $65,270El Paso, TX — $65,320Bangor, ME — $65,480Flagstaff, AZ — $65,560Wichita, KS — $65,640Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $65,870Lubbock, TX — $65,980Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $66,510Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $66,750Jacksonville, FL — $67,200Wichita Falls, TX — $67,270Knoxville, TN — $67,300Omaha, NE-IA — $67,350Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $67,350Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $67,440Jackson, MS — $67,750Flint, MI — $67,790Ogden, UT — $67,910Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $68,080Oklahoma City, OK — $68,140Peoria, IL — $68,450Warner Robins, GA — $69,330Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $69,430Redding, CA — $69,770Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $70,720Fargo, ND-MN — $71,060Fort Wayne, IN — $71,070Kansas City, MO-KS — $71,080Fresno, CA — $71,240Portland-South Portland, ME — $71,420Topeka, KS — $71,450Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $71,510Ocala, FL — $71,770Duluth, MN-WI — $71,780Pittsburgh, PA — $72,090Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $72,490Wausau, WI — $72,540Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $72,630Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $72,700Port St. Lucie, FL — $72,800Cheyenne, WY — $72,950Columbia, SC — $73,110Lancaster, PA — $73,130Salem, OR — $73,160Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $73,210Jacksonville, NC — $73,240Tucson, AZ — $73,340Winston-Salem, NC — $73,480Midland, TX — $73,910Madison, WI — $74,030Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $74,150Columbus, OH — $74,210Killeen-Temple, TX — $74,240Fayetteville, NC — $74,440Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $74,460Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $74,480San Angelo, TX — $74,490Greeley, CO — $74,570Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $74,630Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $74,770Bend, OR — $74,940Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $75,090Richmond, VA — $75,100New Haven, CT — $75,110Stockton-Lodi, CA — $75,250Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $75,280Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $75,300Syracuse, NY — $75,360Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $75,380Manchester-Nashua, NH — $75,530Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $75,550Youngstown-Warren, OH — $75,770Akron, OH — $75,800Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $75,940Johnstown, PA — $76,420Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $76,610North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $76,730Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC — $76,780Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $76,800Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL — $77,180Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $77,270Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $77,480Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $77,580St. Louis, MO-IL — $77,600Las Cruces, NM — $77,650Grand Forks, ND-MN — $77,740Missoula, MT — $77,790Lake Charles, LA — $77,870St. Cloud, MN — $78,150San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $78,240Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $78,260Bellingham, WA — $78,420Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $78,470Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $78,580Albuquerque, NM — $78,730Abilene, TX — $78,810Rochester, NY — $79,200Reno, NV — $79,480Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $79,590Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $79,620Colorado Springs, CO — $79,810Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $79,810Toledo, OH — $79,830Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $80,040Corpus Christi, TX — $80,270Dover, DE — $80,390Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $80,450Cleveland, OH — $80,570Waco, TX — $80,580Montgomery, AL — $80,810Baton Rouge, LA — $80,820Helena, MT — $80,870Rapid City, SD — $81,400Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $81,440Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $81,450Yuma, AZ — $81,450Fairbanks-College, AK — $81,520Goldsboro, NC — $81,640Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $81,690Barnstable Town, MA — $81,900New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $82,160Mobile, AL — $82,260Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $82,420Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $83,250Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $83,260Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $83,760Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $83,820Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $84,100Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $84,440Hanford-Corcoran, CA — $85,250San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $85,340Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $85,400Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $85,410Elizabethtown, KY — $85,700Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $86,830Hammond, LA — $87,170Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $87,280San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $87,560Lafayette, LA — $87,630Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $87,730Bismarck, ND — $88,570Boulder, CO — $88,770Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $90,050Urban Honolulu, HI — $90,110Medford, OR — $90,560Raleigh-Cary, NC — $91,600Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $91,750Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $91,940Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $92,180Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $92,430Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $93,280San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $93,400Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $93,910Anchorage, AK — $94,120Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $94,920Yuba City, CA — $97,240Kahului-Wailuku, HI — $98,280Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $98,300San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $98,760Lexington Park, MD — $100,500Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $100,610Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $100,940Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $101,590Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $101,660Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $103,900New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $127,140

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The San Francisco metro area has the 15th-highest published median for this occupation among the 208 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in California

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for aircraft mechanics and service technicians, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • San Francisco metro areathis page
    $93,400
  • San Jose metro area
    $98,760
  • Yuba City metro area
    $97,240
  • Bakersfield metro area
    $91,750
  • San Diego metro area
    $87,560
  • San Luis Obispo metro area
    $85,340
  • Hanford metro area
    $85,250

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Maintenance and Repair Workers, General$63,630Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics$76,030First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers$102,360Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers$78,490Automotive Body and Related Repairers$76,740Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other$58,140

Highest-paying metro areas for aircraft mechanics and service technicianss · Highest-paying occupations in San Francisco Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.