2026 Elevator Maintenance Salary Guide
National wage benchmarks for the 10 most-recruited elevator maintenance roles, sourced from BLS/O*NET data - with every proxy classification labeled, and every gap in the data disclosed instead of filled with a guess.
What's inside
- National median wage for the elevator mechanic cluster (BLS SOC 47-4021), sourced from BLS/O*NET
- Every proxy classification labeled - QEI inspectors, PMs, estimators, dispatchers, and controls techs mapped to their nearest BLS category
- The roles with no distinct BLS wage figure, and why - we don’t fabricate a number to fill the gap
- How to weigh licensing and QEI certification against base wage when benchmarking an offer
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Download 2026 Elevator Maintenance Salary GuideWhat the public wage data already says about elevator maintenance pay.
The guide is built from our own placement records. This is the other half - what the federal government published for Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers in May 2025, free, before any of our data is added to it.
The eight metros that pay it best.
| Metro | Median | vs national | Employed | Concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | $173,920 | +58% | 70 | 0.43× |
| San Francisco, CA | $168,270 | +53% | 370 | 1.01× |
| Boston, MA | $150,120 | +37% | — | — |
| Chicago, IL | $146,580 | +33% | 850 | 1.22× |
| Las Vegas, NV | $141,920 | +29% | 410 | 2.35× |
| Los Angeles, CA | $140,600 | +28% | 850 | 0.88× |
| San Diego, CA | $140,250 | +28% | 170 | 0.72× |
| Seattle, WA | $138,880 | +26% | 290 | 0.91× |
Concentration is the location quotient: 1.00× is the national rate, 1.40× means the metro has 40% more of these workers per job than the country as a whole.
The same job title pays $173,920 in San Jose and $42,670 in Louisville - $131,250 a year apart. That is across the 47 of our 100 metros where BLS publishes a median for it; in the other 53 the local sample is too small to publish, which is its own signal about how many of these people are around.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Figures are annual, for all employers, not only commercial contractors.
