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Maintenance Workers, Machinery · SOC 49-9043

Maintenance Workers, Machinery Salary in the Charleston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area

Figures describe the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Charleston city limits.

Median annual wage$75,190
Median hourly wage$36.15

Maintenance Workers, Machinery in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area earned a median of $75,190 per year ($36.15 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $52,340 at the 10th percentile to $91,300 at the 90th. BLS estimates 140 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Maintenance Workers, Machinery in the Charleston metro area earn more than $75,190 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $66,790 and $79,060.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$52,340$66,790$75,190$79,060$91,300
Hourly$25.16$32.11$36.15$38.01$43.89

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

  • Charleston metro areathis metro area
    $75,190
  • South Carolinastate (SC)
    $64,910
  • United Statesnational
    $60,850

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

The median here is +16% vs South Carolina overall and +24% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$31,200$73,220$115,240$157,260Ponce, PR — $31,200San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $40,460Erie, PA — $43,510Midland, TX — $43,750Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $44,410Lubbock, TX — $44,620Fort Wayne, IN — $45,010McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $45,020Lexington Park, MD — $45,190Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $45,450Abilene, TX — $46,060Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $46,430Lafayette, LA — $46,590Rome, GA — $46,630Macon-Bibb County, GA — $47,150Dalton, GA — $47,200Portland-South Portland, ME — $47,870Burlington, NC — $47,970Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $48,270Akron, OH — $48,640Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $48,760Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $48,770Flint, MI — $48,820Columbus, GA-AL — $49,240Ocala, FL — $49,570El Paso, TX — $49,640North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $49,990Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $50,480Springfield, OH — $50,500Canton-Massillon, OH — $50,510Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $50,820Odessa, TX — $51,110Ann Arbor, MI — $51,370Port St. Lucie, FL — $51,880Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $52,100Tucson, AZ — $52,160Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $53,680Boise City, ID — $53,700Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $53,710Jackson, MS — $54,110Oklahoma City, OK — $54,440Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $54,710Salem, OR — $54,730Wichita Falls, TX — $54,960Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $55,010Lancaster, PA — $55,380Toledo, OH — $55,640Visalia, CA — $55,750Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $56,050Youngstown-Warren, OH — $56,100Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $56,130Richmond, VA — $56,150Wichita, KS — $56,310Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $56,340Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $56,360Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $56,370Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $56,490Fresno, CA — $56,520Florence, SC — $56,530Tyler, TX — $56,540Lincoln, NE — $56,850Longview, TX — $57,000York-Hanover, PA — $57,310Savannah, GA — $57,520Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $57,580Reading, PA — $57,580Fayetteville, NC — $58,200Salisbury, MD — $58,210Tulsa, OK — $58,280Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $58,310Montgomery, AL — $58,390Waco, TX — $58,400Hammond, LA — $58,620Goldsboro, NC — $58,650San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $58,650Wheeling, WV-OH — $58,650Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $58,660Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $58,740Bowling Green, KY — $59,100Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $59,100Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $59,130Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $59,270Jacksonville, FL — $59,320Amarillo, TX — $59,410Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $59,570Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $59,620Greensboro-High Point, NC — $59,730Salinas, CA — $59,810Morgantown, WV — $59,910Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $60,000Colorado Springs, CO — $60,150Killeen-Temple, TX — $60,260Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $60,280Cleveland, OH — $60,370Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $60,370Winston-Salem, NC — $60,380Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $60,560Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $60,580Rocky Mount, NC — $60,670Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $60,770Lewiston-Auburn, ME — $60,850Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $60,850Charleston, WV — $60,920Pittsburgh, PA — $60,920Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $60,920Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $60,940Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $60,960Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $60,970Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $61,140Joplin, MO-KS — $61,320Columbus, IN — $61,530Lawton, OK — $61,700New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $61,720Asheville, NC — $61,740Fort Smith, AR-OK — $61,790Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $61,820Modesto, CA — $61,870Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $62,010St. George, UT — $62,010Ogden, UT — $62,100Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $62,140Columbus, OH — $62,140Springfield, MO — $62,410Knoxville, TN — $62,460Topeka, KS — $62,470Lake Charles, LA — $62,480Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $62,560Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $62,560Chattanooga, TN-GA — $62,690Omaha, NE-IA — $62,710Bangor, ME — $62,800Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $62,880Jackson, TN — $62,890Glens Falls, NY — $63,000Redding, CA — $63,160Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $63,190Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $63,500Green Bay, WI — $63,500Rochester, NY — $63,500Enid, OK — $63,570Kansas City, MO-KS — $63,700Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $63,770Lawrence, KS — $63,980Pueblo, CO — $64,010Birmingham, AL — $64,180Winchester, VA-WV — $64,300Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $64,390Stockton-Lodi, CA — $64,410Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $64,450Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $64,470Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $64,650Columbia, MO — $64,670St. Cloud, MN — $64,710Columbia, SC — $64,910Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $64,940Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $65,230Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $65,500Utica-Rome, NY — $65,530Elizabethtown, KY — $65,660Evansville, IN — $65,730Spartanburg, SC — $65,740Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $65,760New Haven, CT — $65,840Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $66,000Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $66,050Monroe, LA — $66,200Reno, NV — $66,320Madison, WI — $66,470Morristown, TN — $66,470Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $66,880College Station-Bryan, TX — $66,910Raleigh-Cary, NC — $67,040Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $67,130Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $67,490New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $68,990Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $69,940San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $71,530St. Louis, MO-IL — $71,840Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $72,400Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $72,750Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $73,080Lexington-Fayette, KY — $74,610San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $74,940Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $75,190Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $75,780St. Joseph, MO-KS — $76,530Charlottesville, VA — $77,060San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $79,090Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $79,410Syracuse, NY — $79,720Longview-Kelso, WA — $79,890Kennewick-Richland, WA — $81,070Baton Rouge, LA — $83,170Vallejo, CA — $83,540Manchester-Nashua, NH — $83,890Clarksville, TN-KY — $84,500Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $91,440Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $157,260

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 Charleston metro area has the 15th-highest published median for this occupation among the 198 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 South Carolina

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for maintenance workers, machinery, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Charleston metro areathis page
    $75,190
  • Greenville metro area
    $67,490
  • Spartanburg metro area
    $65,740
  • Columbia metro area
    $64,910
  • Florence metro area
    $56,530

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$48,540Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics$49,120First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers$77,300Industrial Machinery Mechanics$60,950Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers$58,410Automotive Body and Related Repairers$63,080

Highest-paying metro areas for maintenance workers, machinerys · Highest-paying occupations in Charleston 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.