Controls Technician Salary & Pay Data

BLS OEWS May 2025 · Related occupation (proxy): SOC 49-2094 Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Proxy: median, all electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
$74,090
$35.62 an hour
Controls Technician wage (BLS)
Not published

Proxy: BLS has no controls-technician occupation.

Electrical and electronics repairers of commercial and industrial equipment is the closest; building-automation work overlaps HVAC controls, which BLS counts elsewhere.

Annual figures are BLS hourly wages × 2,080 hours. OEWS covers wage-and-salary workers only, so it leaves out the self-employed, workers in private households, overtime pay and most bonuses.

What the BLS figure covers

Median, all electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
$74,090
Jobs in the occupation
65,010
BLS series for this title
None

These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 49-2094 Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment, a related occupation shown only as a benchmark.

BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for controls technicians, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.

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