Instrumentation Technician Salary & Pay Data

BLS OEWS May 2025 · Related occupation (proxy): SOC 17-3023 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Proxy: median, all electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians
$78,190
$37.59 an hour
Instrumentation Technician wage (BLS)
Not published

Proxy: BLS has no instrumentation-technician occupation.

Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians is the closest and includes lab and design technicians.

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 electronic engineering technologists and technicians
$78,190
Jobs in the occupation
95,130
BLS series for this title
None

These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 17-3023 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians, a related occupation shown only as a benchmark.

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

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