Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Maintenance Worker: $43K median posted pay.
From 8 salary bands employers posted on 66 open maintenance worker roles in skilled trades. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 6 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| National Park Service | 10 | — |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | 9 | — |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | 5 | — |
| Forest Service | 5 | — |
| Veterans Health Administration | 5 | — |
| City of New York | 4 | — |
| University of Texas at Austin Staff | 3 | — |
| University of Texas at Austin | 3 | — |
| Avera | 2 | — |
| Federal Emergency Management Agency | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open maintenance worker roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Plumbing Installation | 19 | — |
| Carpentry | 17 | — |
| Investigation | 8 | — |
| Preventive Maintenance | 8 | — |
| Classroom Teaching | 6 | — |
| Facilities Maintenance | 6 | — |
| Insurance Verification | 6 | — |
| Electrical Wiring | 6 | — |
| Statistics | 6 | — |
| Drywall Installation and Finishing | 5 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site68%45 roles
- Not stated32%21 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 66 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 8 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Maintenance Worker (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in skilled trades, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.