Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers · SOC 49-2021

Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers Salary in the Pittsburgh Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Pittsburgh, PA metro area

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

Median annual wage$80,430
Median hourly wage$38.67

Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers in the Pittsburgh, PA metro area earned a median of $80,430 per year ($38.67 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $48,670 at the 10th percentile to $104,260 at the 90th. BLS estimates 50 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers in the Pittsburgh metro area earn more than $80,430 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $56,310 and $103,490.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$48,670$56,310$80,430$103,490$104,260
Hourly$23.40$27.07$38.67$49.75$50.12

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

  • Pittsburgh metro areathis metro area
    $80,430 median for Pittsburgh metro area; middle half earns $56,310 to $103,490
  • Pennsylvaniastate (PA)
    $103,010 median for Pennsylvania; middle half earns $62,440 to $105,240
  • $63,520 median for United States; middle half earns $50,580 to $82,370

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

The median here is −22% vs Pennsylvania overall and +27% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

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Where this metro sits nationally

$22,780$50,267$77,753$105,240San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $22,780Wilmington, NC — $47,040Kansas City, MO-KS — $49,630Knoxville, TN — $49,810Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $49,860Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $49,970Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $50,170Boulder, CO — $50,500Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $50,530Colorado Springs, CO — $50,960Portland-South Portland, ME — $51,970St. Louis, MO-IL — $54,070Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $56,890Green Bay, WI — $58,210Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $58,360Jacksonville, FL — $58,660Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $58,760Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $59,020Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $60,910Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $61,110Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $61,510Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $62,010Vallejo, CA — $62,890Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $63,540Salem, OR — $64,090Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $65,520Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $65,810Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $65,910Urban Honolulu, HI — $65,970Richmond, VA — $67,090Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $67,130Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $67,150Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $67,790Columbus, OH — $67,980San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $70,880Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $74,570San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $75,330Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $75,780Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $76,070Anchorage, AK — $76,920San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $79,340Pittsburgh, PA — $80,430Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $80,880Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $81,270Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $82,380Albuquerque, NM — $86,580Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $95,620New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $96,610Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $97,970Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $100,890Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $105,240

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 Pittsburgh metro area has the 10th-highest published median for this occupation among the 51 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 Pennsylvania

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for radio, cellular, and tower equipment installers and repairers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Pittsburgh metro areathis page
    $80,430 median for Pittsburgh metro area; middle half earns $56,310 to $103,490
  • $65,520 median for Philadelphia metro area; middle half earns $64,490 to $83,950

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

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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.