Field Service Technician salary
What a field service technician actually earns, from 302 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-22.
Switch the market above to see field service technician pay in the 2 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
A field service technician earns a blended US median near 65,724 dollars, with the typical middle running from 49,542 dollars to 81,829 dollars. The official OEWS median is 48,620 dollars, under the posted figure, because the advertised roles skew senior or well-funded. The official trend has moved up about 24 percent since 2019.
Open field service technician roles
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TÉCNICO DE SERVICIO DE CAMPO - NIVEL II at Cummins Inc.San José1d agoApply
Senior Field Engineer - ECH SME - US Remote at Motorola SolutionsUnited States · Remote$90k–$100k1d agoApply
4- oder 5-Tage-Woche – Servicetechniker Öl / Gas Stadt Luzern & Agglomeration (w/m/div.) REF296638W at BoschGroupSteinhausen, CH1d agoUnlock
Servicetechniker:in Werkzeugmaschinen & Automation at Neutec Werkzeugmaschinen AgImmensee, Schwyz, Switzerland1d agoApply- Anwendungs- und Servicetechniker:in at INDEX Werkzeugmaschinen (Schweiz) AGSt-Blaise, Neuchâtel, Switzerland1d agoApply
Servicetechniker Region Basel at Otis SAReinach BL, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland1d agoApply
By country
- United States$49,542$65,724$81,829
- United Kingdom$47,116$53,518$60,208
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- Washington$57,910
- New York$56,180
- California$56,030
- Wisconsin$51,470
- Colorado$51,130
- Indiana$49,290
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Quick answers
How much does a field service technician make?
The blended US median is about 65,724 dollars, with a typical range from 49,542 dollars to 81,829 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 48,620 dollars.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 49-9071. Live corpus 302 observations, 2026-09-22. Definitions in the glossary.