The Salary of a Piano Technician
To a piano technician, the “keys” to the highest salary involve far more than just tinkling the ivories. Piano technicians must make serious decisions when planning their careers, outside of the scope of uprights and Baby Grands. A piano technician’s annual income is impacted by location and even industry of employment.
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Tuning In
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Musical instrument repairers, an umbrella category in which the Bureau of Labor Statistics includes piano technicians, numbered approximately 5,650 across the United States as of May 2010. In the bureau’s Occupational Employment and Wages report of that time period, piano technicians earned 50th percentile wages of $31,760. On the pay scale, piano technicians earned $18,620 at the 10th percentile and $56,300 at the 90th percentile.
Industry Soundoff
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Musical instrument stores, hobby and sporting goods shops employed more than five times as many piano technicians as the next largest industry and more technicians than all other industries combined. The category’s annual wage rate was slightly higher than average at $33,870, the fifth-highest for the profession. The highest-paying industry for piano technicians was the college and universities category, where members of the profession earned annual wages of $50,710.
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Highest State Salaries
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Piano technicians in the Maine workforce earned the highest salaries in the country, with annual statewide wages of $45,840 at the time of the bureau’s report. Wisconsin placed second, with piano technician salaries at $41,770, closely followed by New Hampshire, where the rate was $41,530. Employers in Maryland were close behind and in fourth place with wages of $41,420. Also close was Iowa, where piano technicians had the fifth-highest salaries at $41,010.
Employment Clusters
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The Lone Star State topped the bureau’s list of states with the highest employment level for piano technicians as well as paid a higher than average rate of $35,060. Florida, in second place for employment level, paid just below-average wages at $30,320. Salaries in third-highest California were above average at $36,060, and even higher in New York, with rates at $39,890 for the fourth-highest employment level state. Piano technicians in Pennsylvania, with the fifth-highest employment level, earned at a rate just above the national wage at $32,930.
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