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Mechanical Door Repairers — Career Decision Dashboard

United States

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Median annual wage

$55,720

United States, 2025

Employment

27,120

United States, 2025

Typical education

Not recorded

Job Zone 2

Skills identified

35

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Career overview

Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics.

O*NET code
49-9011.00
Job zone
2
Experience required
None

Typical tasks

  • Wind large springs with upward motion of arm.
  • Complete required paperwork, such as work orders, according to services performed or required.
  • Repair or replace worn or broken door parts, using hand tools.
  • Fasten angle iron back-hangers to ceilings and tracks, using fasteners or welding equipment.
  • Order replacement springs, sections, or slats.
  • Carry springs to tops of doors, using ladders or scaffolding, and attach springs to tracks to install spring systems.
  • Install door frames, rails, steel rolling curtains, electronic-eye mechanisms, or electric door openers and closers, using power tools, hand tools, and electronic test equipment.
  • Adjust doors to open or close with the correct amount of effort, or make simple adjustments to electric openers.

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Salary analysis — United States

$38,490
10th
$46,610
25th
$55,720
Median
$65,630
75th
$78,260
90th

10th percentile

$38,490

25th percentile

$46,610

75th percentile

$65,630

90th percentile

$78,260

Most important skills

  • Installation3.4
  • Repairing3.3
  • Critical Thinking3.3
  • Quality Control Analysis3.3
  • Complex Problem Solving3.1
  • Operations Monitoring3.1
  • Active Listening3.1
  • Troubleshooting3.0
  • Operation and Control3.0
  • Speaking3.0
  • Reading Comprehension3.0
  • Active Learning3.0

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Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.

Skill coverage

0%

0 of 14 identified skills

Matched

0

Missing

14

Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.

Skills to develop

SkillImportanceRequired levelYour levelGap
Installation3.43.4Not selected3.4
Quality Control Analysis3.33.4Not selected3.4
Repairing3.33.1Not selected3.1
Critical Thinking3.33.1Not selected3.1
Complex Problem Solving3.13.0Not selected3.0
Operations Monitoring3.13.0Not selected3.0
Active Listening3.13.0Not selected3.0
Troubleshooting3.03.0Not selected3.0
Operation and Control3.03.0Not selected3.0
Speaking3.03.0Not selected3.0
Coordination3.03.0Not selected3.0
Reading Comprehension3.02.9Not selected2.9
Monitoring3.02.9Not selected2.9
Active Learning3.02.6Not selected2.6

Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.

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How salary varies by location

LocationMedianEmploymentYear
AK$103,550—2025
NJ$67,1501,2902025
Trenton, NJ$67,090702025
New York, NY$66,8901,7702025
Salt Lake City, UT$66,540—2025
IL$65,0901,7702025
Chicago, IL$65,090—2025
UT$64,660—2025
South Bend, IN$64,640502025
Lansing, MI$64,400502025
Des Moines, IA$64,2601202025
Denver, CO$63,9603402025
Fort Collins, CO$63,510402025
CO$62,4605702025
NH$62,3901502025
Manchester, NH$62,300502025
Indianapolis, IN$62,2102502025
Minneapolis, MN$62,020702025
Elkhart, IN$61,210402025
Kalamazoo, MI$61,190602025
All locations with published data

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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0.

Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).

Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.