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Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers pay in Alabama and California
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers is $34,670 per year in Alabama. It is $59,450 per year in California. Alabama is 41.7% below California on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 49-9095 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 40 wage and salary jobs in Alabama and Not published in California. 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.