The median annual wage for industrial machinery mechanics, machinery maintenance workers, and millwrights was $48,410 in May 2015. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $30,670, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $74,090.

Median annual wages for industrial machinery mechanics, machinery maintenance workers, and millwrights in May 2015 were as follows:

In May 2015, the median annual wages for industrial machinery mechanics, machinery maintenance workers, and millwrights in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:

Most industrial machinery mechanics and machinery maintenance workers are employed full time during regular business hours. However, mechanics may be on call or assigned to work night or weekend shifts. Overtime is common, particularly for mechanics.

Millwrights are sometimes employed on a contract basis and frequently spend only a few days or weeks at a single site—as long as it takes them to assemble or disassemble an industrial machine. As a result, workers often have variable schedules and may experience downtime between jobs.

Union Membership

Compared with workers in all occupations, industrial machinery mechanics, machinery maintenance workers, and millwrights had a higher percentage of workers who belonged to a union in 2014.