Installation & Repair
Office Machine Repairers
SOC 49-9061
Repair printers, copiers, and other office equipment.
The job
Median pay
$53k
$42k to $66k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Declining
-15% projected
Openings a year
100
BLS projection
Typical education
Postsecondary cert
Our model
AI displacement risk
Moderate
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
16/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
66th pct
More exposed than 66% of occupations · modeled estimate · 59th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
36/100
Key skills
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Active Learning
- Monitoring
Pay and jobs by state
BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.
| State | Jobs | Per 1,000 | vs national | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 148 | 0.0 | 0.8× | $60k~ |
| Texas | 90 | 0.0 | 0.6× | $34k |
| Ohio | 80 | 0.0 | 1.4× | $85k |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | 0.0 | 0.9× | $53k~ |
| Georgia | 60 | 0.0 | 1.2× | $49k |
| Illinois | 57 | 0.0 | 0.9× | $54k~ |
| New York | 50 | 0.0 | 0.5× | $48k |
| Michigan | 48 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $52k~ |
| Virginia | 42 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $65k~ |
| New Jersey | 40 | 0.0 | 0.9× | $60k |
All 51 states
| State | Jobs | Per 1,000 | vs national | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 39 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $45k~ |
| Arizona | 38 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $59k~ |
| Indiana | 37 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $52k~ |
| Washington | 36 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $61k~ |
| Missouri | 32 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $51k~ |
| Colorado | 31 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $55k~ |
| Wisconsin | 31 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $54k~ |
| Florida | 30 | 0.0 | 0.3× | $41k |
| North Carolina | 30 | 0.0 | 0.6× | $41k |
| Alabama | 29 | 0.0 | 1.3× | $50k~ |
| Massachusetts | 29 | 0.0 | 0.8× | $58k~ |
| Minnesota | 28 | 0.0 | 0.9× | $56k~ |
| South Carolina | 28 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $49k~ |
| Kentucky | 26 | 0.0 | 1.2× | $51k~ |
| Louisiana | 26 | 0.0 | 1.3× | $47k~ |
| Maryland | 26 | 0.0 | 0.9× | $54k~ |
| Oklahoma | 25 | 0.0 | 1.4× | $49k~ |
| Oregon | 20 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $55k~ |
| Iowa | 19 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $53k~ |
| Utah | 18 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $52k~ |
| Arkansas | 17 | 0.0 | 1.2× | $44k~ |
| Kansas | 17 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $47k~ |
| Nevada | 17 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $53k~ |
| Mississippi | 16 | 0.0 | 1.3× | $43k~ |
| Connecticut | 15 | 0.0 | 0.8× | $57k~ |
| Nebraska | 12 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $52k~ |
| Idaho | 11 | 0.0 | 1.2× | $50k~ |
| New Mexico | 10 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $45k~ |
| West Virginia | 10 | 0.0 | 1.3× | $44k~ |
| Maine | 8 | 0.0 | 1.2× | $53k~ |
| Hawaii | 7 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $58k~ |
| New Hampshire | 7 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $55k~ |
| Montana | 6 | 0.0 | 1.1× | $52k~ |
| North Dakota | 6 | 0.0 | 1.3× | $55k~ |
| Alaska | 5 | 0.0 | 1.4× | $66k~ |
| South Dakota | 5 | 0.0 | 1.0× | $52k~ |
| Wyoming | 5 | 0.0 | 1.7× | $54k~ |
| Delaware | 4 | 0.0 | 0.8× | $54k~ |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 0.0 | 0.8× | $54k~ |
| Washington DC | 3 | 0.0 | 0.4× | $64k~ |
| Vermont | 3 | 0.0 | 0.9× | $53k~ |
Top metro areas
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ60 jobs · $60k median
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA40 jobs · $50k median
Explore the rankings
Explore Office Machine Repairers interactively →Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.