Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
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Overview
Install, service, adjust, or repair coin, vending, or amusement machines including video games, juke boxes, pinball machines, or slot machines.
Titles for this career often contain these words
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Salary
Median salary: $37,580 annually
Half of those employed in this career earn between $29,280 and $48,440.
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How do salaries for this career compare to other jobs' salaries?
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Salary growth for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
Is this job likely to reward you for sticking with it through pay raises and promotions? The higher a job’s “experience quotient,” the more you are likely to get as you stay there.
Experience quotient percentile
Take a minute to look at how much you might expect your salary to increase with each five years' experience, as well as how the numbers working at each age change. Does this seem to be a job for the young or the old, or could it be a career offering steady salary growth for many years?
Salary distribution
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About Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
How do benefits for this career compare to other jobs? The availability of health care, especially employer provided health care, and pension plans can add significantly to the value of compensation you receive in a career. These charts compare how this career compares to other careers with regard to health care and pension plans.
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Employer is providing health insurance
Employer-provided pension plan is available
Worker concerns
Some jobs are more stressful than others, and some are just plain dangerous. The following list gives the percentages of coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers who report hazardous or difficult situations typically occurring at least once a week.
  • Unpleasant or Angry People (48%)
  • Exposed to Contaminants (39%)
  • High Conflict Frequency (34%)
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Injury and Illness
About 41 coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers become injured or ill for every 10,000 workers, making this job more dangerous than 64% of other careers. The most common specific concerns detailed following.
Sprains, strains, tears
Education pathways to this career
Education attained by coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers typically hold a high school diploma or equivalent.
Sometimes the typical education identified by the BLS differs a bit from the reality of the how much education current workers actually have. The donut shows the education level held by people currently working as coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers as reported in responses to the American Community Survey.
Education level of Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
Only 8% of coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers have a bachelor's degree or higher.
Education attained by coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
None
High School
Some College
Associate's Degree
Bachelor's Degree
Master's Degree
Professional Degree
Doctorate
Where are the jobs
State-by-state employment numbers
Some careers tend to be centered in specific parts of the country. For example, most jobs in fashion are in New York or California. Let's see if your dream job is easy to find in your dream location! We have a few choices for viewing the data that can help you get a full employment picture.
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Number of Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers per 1,000 workers (ACS)
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Job density versus job count
Which states hire the most coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers? We wonder if that's a fair question since states come in all sizes, so instead let's start with the question of which states have the highest density of people working as coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers. You can choose to view the number of jobs per state if you prefer.
Salaries by state
Let's get a feel for where coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers earn the highest salaries. There are several choices for which data we consider and how we view that data, and each can lead to different conclusions, so please read on...
Median salary versus state ratio
We use two methods to compare salaries across states:
  • In-state comparisons: the ratio of median (middle) salaries for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers compared to the median salary for all people working in each state, or
  • Median salary: the unaltered median salaries for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers.
We hope the ratio allows perspective about how salaries may compare to the regional cost-of-living.
The darkest shading corresponds to states in which coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers earn the highest salary when compared to other jobs in the state. We think this figure might be a better indicator than the actual salary for your buying power as a state resident.
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Location-adjusted median salary for Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers (ACS)
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Employment
18% of Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers are working part time.
We’ve found that some jobs have a huge number of part-time workers, and typically that is because they are unable to find full-time work or the job itself can’t provide full-time hours. With 18% part-time workers, this occupation has a higher percentage of part-time workers than 63% of careers.
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Employer types
This donut shares the break-down of workers by employer type, giving us a picture of what employers most typically hire for this career.
Employers of undefined (ACS)
Private for-profit
Private not-for-profit
Local government
State government
Federal government
Self-employed incorporated
Self-employed not incorporated
Working without pay
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Distribution: Salaries of coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers by type of employer
Here are the salary distributions based on employer type.
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Gender
Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers and gender
With 13% women, this occupation has a lower percentage of women than 76% of careers.
Gender of Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
Men (87%)
Women (13%)
Distribution: salaries by gender
Does gender greatly influence your salary in this career? The closer the bars are, the less discrepancy there is.
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We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.
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Context: Women in the workforce
How does this career compare to other careers with regard to the percentage of women in the career.
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Context: Salary inequity
The median salary for all full-time male workers in the US exceeds the full-time median salary for women by 19%. The situation is a little better for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers, with the median salary for men 11% higher than the median salary for women.
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Race/Origin
Race and origin of Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
This donut shows the distribution of race and origin among those employed as Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers.
Race/origin of coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
White (76% )
Black (10% )
Other (5% )
American Indian (3% )
Asian (3% )
Multiracial (2% )
Hispanic (1% )
Pacific Islander (0% )
Distribution: salaries by race/origin
Some careers might have a pay disparity based on race or origin, the closer the below bars are the less of a discrepancy is present.
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We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.