Media and communication equipment workers, all other

SOC 27-4099 · 27-0000 · Score reference month July 2026

All media and communication equipment workers not listed separately.

In short

The national Job Market Health score is in the Weak band for July 2026.

Job Market Health score

25/ 100
Weak

Stable

Confidence
High
Restated score
25
Methodology
v1.0
Geography
US
  • At least 90% of required inputs and occupation-industry mapping are covered.

Job Market Health scores are derived indicators based on published data, informational only, not a forecast or guarantee.

$70,720Median annual wageOEWS May 2025
1,000Projected annual openingsBLS Employment Projections 2025-2035
+1.6%Projected growth2025–2035
12,450Total employmentOEWS May 2025

Latest interpretation

What stands out for media and communication equipment workers, all other

The clearest signals from the latest validated score, outlook and metro data.

Long-term outlook is the strongest component

Long-term outlook scores 34/100, compared with 12/100 for occupation fundamentals, a 22-point difference.

JobMarketHealth score components

Published long-term outlook

BLS projects 1,000 average annual openings and +1.6% employment growth from 2025 to 2035. Projected openings are a modeled annual average, not vacancies open today.

BLS Employment Projections

Largest published metro market

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA has the largest published metro employment count for media and communication equipment workers, all other, at 2,110 jobs. The next-largest published metro is Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV with 670 jobs. This measures employment scale, not market quality.

BLS OEWS

Local market context

QCEW industry conditions for this occupation’s employment mix

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How to read this section

QCEW measures employment and wages by industry, not by occupation. We weight those industry conditions using the published industry mix for this occupation. These figures describe the industries that employ this occupation; they are not direct counts of people working in the occupation or jobs currently open.

Source: BLS QCEW. This section is not part of the national 0 to 100 Job Market Health score. See the methodology.

Compare states for media and communication equipment workers, all otherSide-by-side published industry conditions for two or three states. There is no state-level health score; the 0 to 100 score is national.

How to read this page

The score is a national composite from 0 to 100 that weights near term hiring demand at 50 percent, the occupation's own employment fundamentals at 30 percent, and long-term outlook at 20 percent. Wages and occupation profile details are context shown alongside it, not score inputs. See the full methodology.

Median annual wage and metro employment come from BLS OEWS, which is annual. Projected annual openings and projected growth come from BLS Employment Projections and describe the published projection horizon, so they are not a count of jobs open today. Values shown as not published are suppressed by the source rather than filled in here.

Job Market Health trend

Published composite score · 0–100 · by reference month

Latest published values
  • Jul 2625 / 100

A trend needs at least two published months. The published score is shown above and in the values table.

View values: Job Market Health history
Job Market Health history
Reference monthScore / 100
Jul 2625

Score components

The three published inputs behind the composite · each 0–100

Current demand30 / 100
Occupation fundamentals12 / 100
Long-term outlook34 / 100

Largest metro markets by employment

OEWS employment count, where the jobs are, not a quality ranking

OEWS May 2025. These occupation counts describe the survey reference period.

Linked metro names open overall job-market profiles.

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Employment · number of jobs

  • Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA2,110
  • Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV670
  • Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA520
  • New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ440
  • San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA420
  • Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD360
  • San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA280
  • Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD270
  • Urban Honolulu, HI260
  • Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO240
Largest metro markets by employment
Metro areaEmploymentJobs per 1,000Median annual wage
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA2,1100.34$64,540
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV6700.21$121,680
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA5200.18$48,120
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ4400.05$66,650
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA4200.18$110,780
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD3600.26$71,090
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA2800.18$56,730
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD2700.09$75,600
Urban Honolulu, HI2600.58$79,750
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO2400.15$58,320

Education & training

Typical entry requirements · BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035

Typical education
High school diploma or equivalent
Work experience
None
On-the-job training
Short-term on-the-job training
Projected employment
14,300 jobs

Top skills

Occupation profile · O*NET 31.0 Database

O*NET skills are not available in this published occupation profile. Other figures on this page use their separately listed sources.

Sources and methodology

The datasets behind the figures on this page

Job Market Health score
Score for reference month July 2026 · methodology v1.0 · MethodologyScore last recalculated Sep 17, 2026 · First published Sep 17, 2026
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
Employment, wages and largest metros · OEWS May 2025 · publisher release May 15, 2026 · About this sourceRetrieved Sep 17, 2026
BLS Employment Projections
Projected growth, openings, education and training · BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035 · publisher release Aug 27, 2026 · About this sourceRetrieved Sep 17, 2026
O*NET
Skills, alternate titles and related occupations · O*NET 31.0 Database · publisher release date not verified · About this sourceRetrieved Oct 19, 2026

Values marked “Not published” are suppressed or not published by the source. We leave them blank rather than estimating them. Pipeline status for every source is on Data Status.

Evidence record

JobMarketHealth derived indicator; not a government statistic. The composite score is national and occupation level.

Occupation
Media and communication equipment workers, all other
SOC code
27-4099
Geography
United States
Reference month
July 2026
Published Job Market Health score
25 / 100
Restated score
25 / 100
Band
Weak
Current Demand component
30 / 10050% weight
Occupation Fundamentals component
12 / 10030% weight
Long-Term Outlook component
34 / 10020% weight
Confidence
HighAt least 90% of required inputs and occupation-industry mapping are covered.
Methodology version
v1.0
Source vintage: Annual
EP-2025-2035|CPS-25b-2025|OEWS-2020-2025
Source vintage: Monthly calculated at
2026-09-17T10:52:24.877Z
First published at
Sep 17, 2026
Recalculated at
Sep 17, 2026
Canonical record URL
https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/media-and-communication-equipment-workers-all-other#evidence-record
Derived by
JobMarketHealth

Keep going

Learn how to judge a market from these numbers in how to tell if a job market is healthy, or why projected growth and annual openings often disagree in projected growth vs projected annual openings. Coverage, revisions and limits are explained on about the data.

The datasets behind these figures, and what each one can and cannot show, are set out on data sources.