Industrial Machinery Mechanics
SOC 49-9041 · 2024-2034
Repair, install, adjust, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems. May also install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to plans.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $76,504per year
- Projected openings
- 28,510
- Projected change
- +13.8%
- Usually needs
- High school diploma or equivalent
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Equipment Maintenance
- Operation and Control
- Operations Monitoring
- Repairing
- Troubleshooting
- Quality Control Analysis
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $98,725 | 100 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $92,486 | 2,030 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $87,949 | 540 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $84,961 | 70 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $83,369 | 1,190 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $81,815 | 540 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $80,278 | 240 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $78,316 | 930 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $77,453 | 370 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $77,453 | 960 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $76,848 | 120 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $76,190 | 1,190 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $76,181 | 5,430 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $75,697 | 120 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $75,461 | 80 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $73,582 | 180 |
| Salinas MSA (Monterey County) | $73,479 | 440 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $73,161 | 300 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $72,041 | 130 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $71,785 | 3,070 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $69,800 | 2,270 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $69,248 | 190 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $68,940 | 130 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $68,519 | 1,700 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $67,800 | 430 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $67,471 | 190 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $67,287 | 1,280 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $66,126 | 1,000 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $65,530 | 250 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $64,719 | 630 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $60,262 | 180 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maintenance Workers, Machinery | $69,758 | 3,750 | 0% |
| Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic | $47,878 | 3,160 | 0% |
| Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines | $80,771 | 18,430 | +6.8% |
| Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic | $60,397 | 1,390 | -20% |
| Engine and Other Machine Assemblers | $47,878 | 960 | -16.7% |
| Millwrights | $80,154 | 2,010 | 0% |
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