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Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers pay in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX and Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers is $52,270 per year in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. It is $79,040 per year in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX is 33.9% below Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 49-2097 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 280 wage and salary jobs in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX and Not published in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.