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First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers pay in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA and Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers is $84,600 per year in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA. It is $120,040 per year in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA. Amherst Town-Northampton, MA is 29.5% below Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 49-1011 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 240 wage and salary jobs in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA and 1,020 in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA. 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.