Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers job market in Rhode Island

Industry trends, wages and hiring signals.

The headline

Industry employment fell while average weekly industry wages rose

A data-driven view of the industries that employ Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers in Rhode Island.

Verified QCEW 2026 Q1January to March 2026 · State coverage 94.33% · BLS QCEWCitationEvidence record

Verified snapshot

Market at a Glance

Key changes in Rhode Island’s weighted industry mix.

-0.5%Industry employmentRhode Island industry employmentU.S. -0.5%vs. -0.5% U.S.
-2.6%Establishments in weighted industriesRhode Island establishments in weighted industriesU.S. +0.9%vs. +0.9% U.S.
+3.7%Avg. weekly industry wageRhode Island avg. weekly industry wageU.S. +3.5% · not occupation payvs. +3.5% U.S. · not occupation pay
+0.1 ppGap vs. U.S. industry employmentState minus U.S. industry employment change

Percentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.

Published coverage: 13,712 represented establishments, 84.4% of the published industry mix.

Latest interpretation

What stands out for electric motor, power tool, and related repairers in Rhode Island

The clearest signals from the latest validated state industry data available for this page.

Rhode Island is tracking close to the U.S. employment benchmark

Employment across the industries associated with Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers changed -0.5% year over year in Rhode Island, 0.1 percentage points above the national change of -0.5%. This is weighted industry context, not direct occupation employment.

BLS QCEW weighted industry context

None of the leading weighted industries is growing

None of the 5 leading weighted industry groups with published values reported positive employment growth. State and local was strongest at -0.3%.

BLS QCEW weighted industry context

Industry measures describe the industries associated with this occupation. They are not direct occupation employment, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score.

Employment trends

Year-over-year change in the weighted industries. The U.S. line is the latest-quarter benchmark because a comparable national quarterly history is not published here.

Latest published values
  • Rhode Island · 2026 Q1-0.5%
  • U.S. · latest-quarter benchmark-0.5%

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Quarterly Rhode Island industry employment changes and coverage
QuarterRhode IslandCoverage
2024 Q2+0.9%100%
2024 Q3+0.5%100%
2024 Q4+1.1%100%
2025 Q1+1.5%94.33%
2025 Q2+1.8%94.33%
2025 Q3+1.2%94.33%
2025 Q40.0%94.33%
2026 Q1-0.5%94.33%

How to read this chart

State trend and national reference

The solid line follows Rhode Island’s published year-over-year industry employment changes by quarter. The dashed U.S. line is a latest-quarter reference, not a second time series.

Published quarters
8
Earliest quarter
2024 Q2
Latest quarter
2026 Q1
U.S. benchmark
-0.5%

Quarters with no published value are omitted rather than interpolated.

Industry context

Where Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers Work

The occupation mix determines which Rhode Island industries are weighted into this view.

Industries weighted into the Rhode Island Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers context
Industry groupOccupation mixEmployment changeEstablishmentsAvg. weekly industry wage
Trade, transportation, and utilities43.0%-0.6%8,291$1,185
Other services19.9%-0.3%4,086$947
Manufacturing13.5%-0.4%1,335$1,543
Construction5.1%Not publishedNot publishedNot published
State and local3.9%-0.3%555$1,478
Professional and business services1.9%-1.0%13,520$2,159

Which industries are growing?

No weighted industry published growth

In January to March 2026, none of the weighted Rhode Island industries published a positive year-over-year employment change. Nothing is substituted in its place.

Current Rhode Island context

Current Rhode Island Market Signals

Statewide indicators for all occupations in Rhode Island. They are not Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers demand and are not part of the Job Market Health score.

Statewide job postings

Indeed job postings · Rhode Island

Recent hiring-demand context · separate from the health score

110.8Postings index · February 1, 2020 = 100Observation: Oct 23, 2026
+10.8%Versus the February 2020 baseline
+0.4%Change over about four weeksSep 25, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026

Total postings index (seasonally adjusted) by observation date · baseline 100

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View values: Indeed postings index
Indeed postings index
Observation dateIndex (Feb 2020 = 100)
Jul 24, 2026106.38
Jul 31, 2026106.30
Aug 7, 2026108.66
Aug 14, 2026107.78
Aug 21, 2026107.55
Aug 28, 2026109.70
Sep 4, 2026108.87
Sep 11, 2026108.85
Sep 18, 2026110.60
Sep 25, 2026110.29
Oct 2, 2026110.23
Oct 9, 2026111.08
Oct 16, 2026110.40
Oct 23, 2026110.75

This is statewide demand across all occupations, not demand for this specific job. Postings are not a count of vacancies or hires, and Indeed does not cover the entire labor market.

Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0. Seven-day average, seasonally adjusted; publisher refreshes weekly and may revise history. Retrieved Nov 1, 2026 · saved source copy. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and samples weekly observations for the chart.

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Career context

Related roles from the occupation’s published O*NET profile.

Questions answered by this release

Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers in Rhode Island FAQs

Each answer is limited to what QCEW 2026 Q1 actually publishes for this state.

Is employment growing for Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers in Rhode Island?

The available QCEW measure is not direct occupation employment. Employment across the Rhode Island industries weighted to Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers changed -0.5% year over year in January to March 2026, compared with -0.5% nationwide.

Are wages for Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers rising in Rhode Island?

QCEW does not publish pay for Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers in this view. Average weekly wages across the weighted industries changed +3.7% year over year; that must not be read as an occupation salary change.

How complete is this Rhode Island industry view?

The three core state trends each meet the site’s coverage floor; the minimum published coverage is 94.33% of the occupation’s industry mix.

Does this page show current Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers openings?

No. QCEW measures industry employment, establishments and wages. Any postings, news or WARN figures shown here are statewide context and are not occupation-specific openings.

Methodology & sourcesQCEW 2026 Q1 · coverage 94.33% · full evidence record

Methodology & Sources

Derived by JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix. This is occupation-weighted industry context, not direct occupation employment and not a count of current job openings.

Occupation
Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
SOC code
49-2092
State
Rhode Island
QCEW release label
QCEW 2026 Q1
Data period
2026 Q1
State industry employment, year over year
-0.5%State data coverage 94.33%
U.S. benchmark, year over year
-0.5%
Difference from U.S. benchmark
+0.1 percentage pointsPercentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.
Establishments, year over year
-2.6%State data coverage 94.33%
Average weekly industry wage, year over year
+3.7%State data coverage 94.33%
Industry mix vintage
EP-2025-2035
BLS publication date
Aug 28, 2026
Source verification
Verified against the committed source snapshotVerified Sep 17, 2026
Canonical record URL
https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/electric-motor-power-tool-and-related-repairers/rhode-island#evidence-record
Derived by
JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix

Weighted industry conditions are not direct occupation employment, occupation wages, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score. No causal explanation is inferred.

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