Occupation
All wages refer to SOC 49-3051, Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians. Common job titles such as marine mechanic, boat mechanic, marine technician and outboard mechanic fall under this code (O*NET). Figures cover all industries and all ownerships combined.
Source and coverage
Wages and employment come from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program, May 2025 reference period, retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-10-31. OEWS surveys employers and covers wage and salary workers; self-employed workers are not included.
BLS defines wages as straight-time gross pay, excluding premium pay such as overtime. See the OEWS technical notes for the full definition.
Metrics shown
- Median
- Half of workers earn more, half earn less. Never substituted with the mean.
- Mean
- The arithmetic average, shown separately and labeled “mean”.
- Percentiles (10th, 25th, 75th, 90th)
- The wage below which that share of workers falls. They describe the spread of pay, not experience levels.
- Hourly vs. annual
- BLS annualizes hourly wages at 2,080 hours (40 × 52). The published U.S. figures are consistent with that: $27.67 × 2,080 ≈ $57,550 after BLS rounding to the nearest $10.
- Employment
- Estimated number of wage and salary jobs, rounded by BLS.
- Location quotient
- The occupation's share of all jobs in a state divided by its share nationally. 1.00 equals the national concentration.
Observed, derived and hypothetical figures
- Published figures are shown as BLS released them: medians, averages, percentiles, job counts and location quotients.
- Some figures are simple arithmetic on those: state ranks, gaps against the U.S., shares of U.S. jobs, map shades, inflation-adjusted pay and calculator conversions.
- Calculator scenarios, such as overtime, use numbers you choose and are labeled as scenarios.
Missing data
When BLS suppresses an estimate or does not publish it, the site shows “N/A” or “Not published” and excludes it from rankings and comparisons. Missing values are never treated as zero or filled in with estimates. No city wages are inferred from state averages.
Pay over time
The trend chart uses the national figures from each May release. Earlier years come from the BLS occupation page for that year, the latest from the BLS data API. Each value was checked against the BLS rule that annual pay equals hourly pay × 2,080. Years we could not retrieve are left blank, not estimated.
The inflation-adjusted line multiplies each median by the May CPI-U of the latest year divided by the May CPI-U of that year (BLS series CUUR0000SA0). Treat year-to-year moves with care: each release mixes three years of survey answers, and BLS changed its method with the May 2021 release.
Updates
OEWS estimates are released once a year. When a new release is available, the data is re-fetched, validated and the site rebuilt; the reference period shown on every page changes accordingly.