How much do facilities maintenance technicians make in 2026?
Facilities maintenance technicians are counted in the BLS maintenance and repair workers, general series: OEWS May 2025 puts the SOC 49-9071 national median at $49,590 a year ($23.84 an hour), with the bottom 10% near $35,350 and the top 10% at $77,180. Because this code covers 1,529,700 workers across every setting, the title tells you less than the site does. Retail, office and light commercial facilities work sits in the lower and middle band and is largely reactive. Distribution and fulfilment centres pay above it for conveyor, dock equipment and material handling maintenance under uptime pressure. Manufacturing sites pay more again where the role touches production equipment. Data centres are the outlier at the top: critical facilities technicians maintaining uninterruptible power supplies, generators, switchgear, chillers and computer room air handling under strict change control earn well above this band's median and often above its top decile, because the cost of downtime is measured in millions. The other differentiator is systems literacy — computerised maintenance management systems, building automation, metering and the discipline of documenting work rather than just doing it. Employment is projected to grow 3.8% through 2034 with roughly 159,800 openings a year. → Full facilities maintenance technician career guide, career path, credentials & placement →
Note: $49,590 blends every experience level and every setting in this occupation. For pay by level alone, see Pay by Level below.
- Facilities Maintenance Technicians earn a national median $49,590/yr ($23.84/hr) (BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 49-9071); the P10 to P90 range is $35,350 to $77,180.
- The pooled BLS general maintenance series gives a $49,590 median inside a $35,350 to $77,180 band across 1,529,700 workers, so the site type matters far more than the job title.
- Critical facilities work in data centres — UPS, generators, switchgear, chillers and computer room cooling under change control — pays at and above the top of this band.
- Systems literacy is the transferable lever: CMMS discipline, building automation and metering knowledge separate technicians who document reliability from those who only make repairs.
US Facilities Maintenance Technician Pay Distribution · BLS OEWS May 2025
Pay by Level · BLS OEWS May 2025
How much do facilities maintenance technicians earn at each level?
BLS OEWS publishes one blended wage for the whole occupation and does not break pay out by credential or practice level. The levels below distribute the published percentile range across the credential tiers this role actually hires at.
Level medians are aligned to the BLS OEWS May 2025 percentile distribution for SOC 49-9071; GlobalCybers does not yet publish a verified placement sample for this role, so no verified median is shown.
Methodology & Sources
How the numbers on this page are built
Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 49-9071, United States national estimate. Public, methodologically rigorous, but sampled on a rolling 3-year basis and published ~10 months after collection — so it reflects wages that are already 1–2 years old by the time you read them.
Level and certification medians: distributed across the published BLS percentile range for this SOC code (P10 through P90) according to the credential tiers this occupation actually hires at. They are modeled reference points, not separately surveyed wages.
State and metro figures: modeled — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers state wage index, and for metros by the published metro index for that state. They are estimates of local pay, not BLS state or metropolitan-area observations, and are labelled as modeled in the tables below.
No verified placement sample:GlobalCybers does not yet publish a placement median for this role, so no "verified" figure appears anywhere on this page.
Pay by Career Level
How much does a facilities maintenance technician earn at each career stage?
Facilities pay follows the criticality of the site and your documentation and systems discipline. Each median is anchored to the BLS OEWS distribution for SOC 49-9071.
By State
Which states pay facilities maintenance technicians the most in 2026?
State figures are modeled estimates — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers salary-calculator state wage index — not BLS state observations. For this role the decisive geography is where high-uptime facilities are: data centre corridors, fulfilment hubs and manufacturing regions pay facilities technicians well above the modeled figure, largely independent of the state's general wage level.
6 of 51 state guides shown, ranked by median. Bar is relative to California ($57,030), the highest-paying state shown. See all role salary guides →
By Metro
Which cities pay facilities maintenance technicians the most?
Metro figures are modeled — national median times state wage index times published metro index — not BLS MSA observations. Note that many of the best-paid facilities roles are in data centre and distribution clusters outside metro cores, where shift work, on-call rotation and retention premiums rather than city wages set the package.
BLS OEWS MSA estimates, May 2025. Nominal pay — weigh each metro against its cost of living before relocating.
Certification Impact
Which certifications raise a facilities maintenance technician’s pay the most?
Median annual pay before and after each credential, based on GlobalCybers placement data cross-referenced with BLS. License upgrades move the needle most; stackable certs add on top.
Impacts are not additive, the licensing rows share the same career ladder. Browse all 167 certifications →
Trade Comparison
How does facilities maintenance technician pay compare to related roles?
BLS OEWS national median across the closest trades. Facilities Maintenance Technicians sit mid-pack on median but carry one of the widest P10–P90 spreads, licensing and specialization drive the upside.
BLS OEWS May 2025. Verify facilities maintenance technician wages on BLS.gov →
Take-Home Pay
What does a facilities maintenance technician actually take home after taxes?
The medians above are gross base wage.
Estimates use 2026 federal brackets, standard deduction, and 7.65% FICA. Actual take-home varies with filing status, deductions, and local tax.
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