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Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles pay in Kansas and Kentucky
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles is $33,380 per year in Kansas. It is $64,570 per year in Kentucky. Kansas is 48.3% below Kentucky on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 49-2096 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 90 wage and salary jobs in Kansas and 40 in Kentucky. 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.