TECH SALARY RESULTS
Joan
Description
Collection
Title:
TECH SALARY RESULTS
Creator:
Joan
Date:
9/8/2000
Text:
Dear members,
I had planned to do personal replies and changed my mind. I don't know how
many members this list hosts, but I think all but about 3 members responded
to this! Half simply asked for the results. I don't feel like spending 3
days searching and replying. I believe I got well over 100 replies and feel
justified doing a public average of the responses. With so many replies, it
was impractical for me to try to create some type of table, so instead I
took the 50 or so replies and averaged the figures. After all, I'm not
getting paid to do this. :-)
Please be advised that these averages are based on a very low percentile of
all the facilities that employ and should be evaluated with the
understanding that these results will vary greatly. There are so many
factors that go into a salary that are not included in the hourly wage-
bonuses, participation, stock incentives, healthcare benefits, IRA's, cost
of living for the area, etc. For example, we have a tech who gets an
average yearly bonus of $6000. That would increase the actual hourly
wage, if calculated in that way, by nearly $4.00/hr. You must look at
these wages and take into consideration all the factors that were NOT
calculated. Job responsibility is also varied. Some of the more
experienced techs were fitters or BOC certified or running an entire central
fab operation, overseeing 20 other techs and doing the hiring/firing.
Obviously, the more responsibility, the more the wage.
Lastly, I would like to extend a special thank you to Eliska Poirier at AOPA
for informing me of a book they publish yearly called the BUSINESS AND
SALARY SURVEY. It costs about $60 for members ($80 non) and does basically
what I attempted to do. It averages the salaries for techs and
practitioners (I think, too) and breaks it down into greater detail
according to region, years experience, registered tech or not, etc. For
more information on this book, visit AOPA's web site at aopanet.org
Here's my averages:
Technician starting salary: $7.25/hr
1-2 years experience: 8.30/hr
5+ years: 15.20/hr
10+ years: 16.80/hr
15+ years: 19.50/hr
Thanks to everyone who participated!
Joan Cestaro, C.P.
Rehab Practitioners, Inc
Winchester VA
I had planned to do personal replies and changed my mind. I don't know how
many members this list hosts, but I think all but about 3 members responded
to this! Half simply asked for the results. I don't feel like spending 3
days searching and replying. I believe I got well over 100 replies and feel
justified doing a public average of the responses. With so many replies, it
was impractical for me to try to create some type of table, so instead I
took the 50 or so replies and averaged the figures. After all, I'm not
getting paid to do this. :-)
Please be advised that these averages are based on a very low percentile of
all the facilities that employ and should be evaluated with the
understanding that these results will vary greatly. There are so many
factors that go into a salary that are not included in the hourly wage-
bonuses, participation, stock incentives, healthcare benefits, IRA's, cost
of living for the area, etc. For example, we have a tech who gets an
average yearly bonus of $6000. That would increase the actual hourly
wage, if calculated in that way, by nearly $4.00/hr. You must look at
these wages and take into consideration all the factors that were NOT
calculated. Job responsibility is also varied. Some of the more
experienced techs were fitters or BOC certified or running an entire central
fab operation, overseeing 20 other techs and doing the hiring/firing.
Obviously, the more responsibility, the more the wage.
Lastly, I would like to extend a special thank you to Eliska Poirier at AOPA
for informing me of a book they publish yearly called the BUSINESS AND
SALARY SURVEY. It costs about $60 for members ($80 non) and does basically
what I attempted to do. It averages the salaries for techs and
practitioners (I think, too) and breaks it down into greater detail
according to region, years experience, registered tech or not, etc. For
more information on this book, visit AOPA's web site at aopanet.org
Here's my averages:
Technician starting salary: $7.25/hr
1-2 years experience: 8.30/hr
5+ years: 15.20/hr
10+ years: 16.80/hr
15+ years: 19.50/hr
Thanks to everyone who participated!
Joan Cestaro, C.P.
Rehab Practitioners, Inc
Winchester VA
Citation
Joan, “TECH SALARY RESULTS,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215056.
