Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay job market in Pennsylvania

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 Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in Pennsylvania.

Verified QCEW 2026 Q1January to March 2026 · State coverage 93.84% · BLS QCEWCitationEvidence record

Occupation pay

What Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay earn in Pennsylvania

BLS OEWS occupation-level pay estimates for this role — separate from the industry wage trends used elsewhere in this report.

BLS OEWS source

Median annual wage

$101,660Pennsylvania
Middle 50% of published wages
$79,640 – $108,740
U.S. median annual wage
$103,020
Reference period
May 2025

The middle 50% is the 25th-to-75th percentile wage range, not an experience-level band. Suppressed or unavailable BLS values remain unpublished rather than being estimated.

Pay around Pennsylvania

How median pay varies by metro area

Published BLS OEWS metro estimates for Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay, compared with the Pennsylvania median of $101,660.

Pennsylvania median$101,660
Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA$107,990+6.2% vs. state
Middle 50%$79,040 – $118,750Published employment40
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD$106,510+4.8% vs. state
Middle 50%$82,510 – $117,170Published employment400
Pittsburgh, PA$103,950+2.3% vs. state
Middle 50%$80,090 – $108,340Published employment210

Areas are ordered by published median wage for readability, not as an overall job-market ranking. The vertical marker is the Pennsylvania median. Some BLS metropolitan areas cross state lines, so a metro estimate can cover workers in more than one state.

Verified snapshot

Market at a Glance

Key changes in Pennsylvania’s weighted industry mix.

-1.0%Industry employmentPennsylvania industry employmentU.S. -0.6%vs. -0.6% U.S.
0.0%Establishments in weighted industriesPennsylvania establishments in weighted industriesU.S. +0.5%vs. +0.5% U.S.
+2.8%Avg. weekly industry wagePennsylvania avg. weekly industry wageU.S. +3.0% · not occupation payvs. +3.0% U.S. · not occupation pay
-0.4 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: 84,465 represented establishments, 80.57% of the published industry mix.

Local research

What the data shows for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in Pennsylvania

Findings describe the published observation periods shown below. Research published Oct 11, 2026.

This occupation is more concentrated in the state

OEWS May 2025 places Pennsylvania's share of employment in electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay at 1.38 times the corresponding national share. The published location quotient expresses that comparison. The state estimate is 1,110 jobs, 5.4% of the national employment estimate for this occupation. It represents 0.18 jobs per thousand jobs in the state's OEWS employment universe. Employment concentration does not establish future growth; it describes employment share, not current hiring.

OEWS May 2025 · BLS OEWS

OEWS employment estimates describe covered wage-and-salary jobs and exclude self-employed workers; location quotients do not measure vacancies or worker demand.

Findings describe published data and do not establish causes. Methodology

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
  • Pennsylvania · 2026 Q1-1.0%
  • U.S. · latest-quarter benchmark-0.6%

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Quarterly Pennsylvania industry employment changes and coverage
QuarterPennsylvaniaCoverage
2024 Q2-0.2%100%
2024 Q3+0.3%100%
2024 Q4+0.3%100%
2025 Q1+0.2%100%
2025 Q2+0.2%100%
2025 Q3-0.1%100%
2025 Q4-0.7%100%
2026 Q1-1.0%93.84%

How to read this chart

State trend and national reference

The solid line follows Pennsylvania’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
-0.6%

Quarters with no published value are omitted rather than interpolated.

Industry context

Where Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay Work

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

Industries weighted into the Pennsylvania Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay context
Industry groupOccupation mixEmployment changeEstablishmentsAvg. weekly industry wage
Trade, transportation, and utilities65.4%-1.3%74,006$1,221
State and local15.2%+0.3%10,459$1,356
Professional and business services7.1%-0.5%83,388$2,370
Construction6.2%Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Other services2.8%+0.5%35,618$912
Federal1.9%-7.8%2,664$2,141

Which industries are growing?

2 weighted industries are growing

Only weighted industries with a published positive Pennsylvania employment change are listed.

  • Other services+0.5%
  • State and local+0.3%

The remaining weighted industries published a flat or negative change in January to March 2026.

Current Pennsylvania context

Current Pennsylvania Market Signals

Statewide indicators for all occupations in Pennsylvania. They are not Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay demand and are not part of the Job Market Health score.

Statewide job postings

Indeed job postings · Pennsylvania

Recent hiring-demand context · separate from the health score

98.3Postings index · February 1, 2020 = 100Observation: Oct 23, 2026
-1.7%Versus the February 2020 baseline
-0.5%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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Indeed postings index
Observation dateIndex (Feb 2020 = 100)
Jul 24, 202698.11
Jul 31, 202697.59
Aug 7, 202697.16
Aug 14, 202697.19
Aug 21, 202697.51
Aug 28, 202697.55
Sep 4, 202697.44
Sep 11, 202697.87
Sep 18, 202698.49
Sep 25, 202698.87
Oct 2, 202699.45
Oct 9, 202699.93
Oct 16, 202699.14
Oct 23, 202698.33

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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Statewide layoff notices

Monthly WARN notices in Pennsylvania

Monthly measurement

Month received in the official state listing. Exact notice days are not published. Effective layoff dates are not used as notice dates.

Latest three completed calendar months
MonthNotice entries
Aug 20269
Sep 20266
Oct 20267
Three-month total22

Nov 2026: not listed in the source — unavailable, not zero; excluded from the total.

Counts describe published notice entries, not unique employers or confirmed job losses. Explicit revisions are excluded as new notices. Missing months remain unavailable; source revisions may change counts.

Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry

Source last checked . This check does not certify a newly published report.

Career context

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

Questions answered by this release

Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in Pennsylvania FAQs

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

Is employment growing for Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in Pennsylvania?

The available QCEW measure is not direct occupation employment. Employment across the Pennsylvania industries weighted to Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay changed -1.0% year over year in January to March 2026, compared with -0.6% nationwide.

Are wages for Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay rising in Pennsylvania?

QCEW does not publish pay for Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in this view. Average weekly wages across the weighted industries changed +2.8% year over year; that must not be read as an occupation salary change.

How complete is this Pennsylvania industry view?

The three core state trends each meet the site’s coverage floor; the minimum published coverage is 93.84% of the occupation’s industry mix.

Does this page show current Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay 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 93.84% · 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
Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
SOC code
49-2095
State
Pennsylvania
QCEW release label
QCEW 2026 Q1
Data period
2026 Q1
State industry employment, year over year
-1.0%State data coverage 93.84%
U.S. benchmark, year over year
-0.6%
Difference from U.S. benchmark
-0.4 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
0.0%State data coverage 93.84%
Average weekly industry wage, year over year
+2.8%State data coverage 93.84%
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/electrical-and-electronics-repairers-powerhouse-substation-and-relay/pennsylvania#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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