Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators in the United States earn a median of $44,650 a year. Pay starts near $33,280. The national 90th percentile is $64,880. This page does not publish a state top-of-range figure.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators, SOC 51-2090). Employment 1,405,030. Last checked 22 September 2026. National percentiles via the BLS OEWS release as republished on O*NET OnLine wage tables.
Wages — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2025 (Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators). Entry is the national 10th percentile. The top chip is the national 90th percentile, not a state. The middle half of workers earns $37,380 to $51,200. Hourly equivalents: $16.00, $21.47, and $31.19. O*NET does not publish a single education mode on the 51-2099.00 summary. This page does not invent one. The marker on the exposure bar is PayCrunch editorial context, not a BLS statistic. Updated 22 September 2026.
Assemble parts into finished goods on the BLS line for miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators. The wage is that national occupation, not a specialty title BLS does not publish.
AI tools that fit Assembler work September 2026
A short list of general tools. This is not a sponsored placement, not a weekly crawl, and not a product review with prices. Use whatever your employer already allows.
A general assistant for plain-language notes.
How a Assembler uses it: Turn a defect note into steps a new assembler can follow, then match them to the plant's own sheet.
AI inside Excel and Outlook.
How a Assembler uses it: Summarize a week of scrap or rework counts before a stand-up.
Google's assistant in Search and Workspace.
How a Assembler uses it: Check a published torque or spec callout only from a source you can name, not from a guess.
Assembler: the part, the check, and SOC 51-2090
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators are SOC 51-2090. The locked chips are entry $33,280, median $44,650, and a national 90th percentile of $64,880. BLS counted 1,405,030 wage-and-salary workers in this occupation in May 2025. O*NET files the matching profile as 51-2099.00 and shows the same national percentiles. The sign-maker page on this site is a PayCrunch estimate. It is not this wage.
Where the national band sits
The middle half earns $37,380 to $51,200. The step from the median $44,650 to the national 90th percentile $64,880 is $20,230 a year. Lead, inspection, and setup duties are how people move inside this band. This page does not invent a state median.
What the station actually audits
A failed check names the part, the spec, and what you did. A count that hides scrap is not a count. The work instruction on the bench beats a sentence from a chat window.
Outlook
O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 on the 51-2099.00 profile as little or no change. O*NET projects about 156,300 openings a year over 2024–2034. That outlook label is not a raise, and it is not the May 2025 employment count.
Locked wage chips on this page: entry $33,280, median $44,650, national 90th percentile $64,880. SOC 51-2090. If a sentence disagrees with those three figures, the figures win.
How to do the work that sits inside this pay band
These steps stay inside the published national range. They are not a promise that you will be paid the 90th percentile.
A passed count that hid a bad part comes back as rework.
Rewrite this defect note so it names the part, the missed spec, and what is still unknown. Do not invent a tolerance I did not paste.A mixed count trains the line to ignore the loss.
Turn this tally into two counts, good and scrap. Do not add a yield target I did not paste.An old sheet builds the wrong unit.
List the questions I should ask when this work instruction and this part disagree. Do not invent a revision I did not paste.Careers related to Assembler
Similar pay, same field
- Forklift Operator $46,420
- Warehouse Worker $40,240
- Stocker $37,330
- Sawmill Operator $42,770
- Inspector Tester $48,570
Where this can lead
- Welder $53,750
- Loading Dock Supervisor $74,450
Wages in this list are the national medians printed on those pages. Every new page in this batch uses BLS OEWS May 2025. The step from this median to the national 90th percentile is $20,230.
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Paste only facts you already have: a count, a date, a step, a file name. If the draft adds a number, a policy, or a product you did not provide, delete it.
Do not paste account numbers, full customer records, patient information, or anything your employer has told you to keep inside its own system.
TODO: PC_GEAR is not filled in this batch. No product links and no ASINs until a reviewed list exists. Do not invent ASINs.
TODO: state-wage table is not filled in this batch. The chips above are national OEWS May 2025 percentiles only. State medians are not estimated here.
Sources
- BLS OEWS — Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators (SOC 51-2090)
- O*NET OnLine summary for 51-2099.00 (2025 wages and 2024–2034 outlook category). BLS publishes the wage as SOC 51-2090. O*NET's profile is 51-2099.00, Assemblers and Fabricators, All Other, and its national wage table matches these percentiles.
- Salary (10th, 25th, median, 75th, 90th) — national BLS OEWS May 2025.
- Employment — national OEWS May 2025 wage-and-salary employment, 1,405,030.
- Outlook — O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 on profile 51-2099.00 as little or no change. Projected openings: about 156,300 a year.
- Not on this page — state wages, metro wages, and product recommendations.
Check another occupation
These ten pages are the next high-employment OEWS lines that were missing as their own salary URLs.