Maintenance and Repair Workers, General salary in St. Louis, MO-IL

The figures

The median Maintenance and Repair Workers, General in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area earns $53,930 a year ($25.93 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Maintenance and Repair Workers, General in St. Louis, MO-IL earn between $44,410 and $65,490 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $36,320 or less and the top 10 percent earn $79,330 or more. BLS estimates 13,170 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General jobs in the St. Louis, MO-IL area — 9.818 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1 (about the same concentration as the nation). That is 0.9% of all Maintenance and Repair Workers, General employment in the United States (1,529,700 jobs nationally). By employment, St. Louis, MO-IL is the #19 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General. In aggregate, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General in St. Louis, MO-IL earn about $0.74 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $45,846.30 a year, so the aggregate take-home of St. Louis, MO-IL Maintenance and Repair Workers, General is about $0.60 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 2.8% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, St. Louis, MO-IL stands #11 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General. By employment, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General is the #17 largest of the 30 covered occupations in St. Louis, MO-IL. Placed against the national distribution for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General, the St. Louis, MO-IL median of $53,930 falls between the national median ($49,590) and the national 75th percentile ($62,620). Across all occupations, the St. Louis, MO-IL median is $49,990 a year — Maintenance and Repair Workers, General pay is 7.9% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Maintenance and Repair Workers, General in St. Louis, MO-IL earn 2.2 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($79,330 against $36,320). The middle half spans $21,080 — from $44,410 to $65,490. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($38.14) is 2.18 times the 10th ($17.46). In the upper half of the St. Louis, MO-IL distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $65,490 takes home $52,700.60 and the 90th percentile wage of $79,330 takes home $61,908.44 — $9,207.84 more net for $13,840 more gross. Against the median take-home of $43,945.74, the top decile keeps 1.41 times as much. The mean wage of $56,440 sits 4.7% above the median: higher-paid Maintenance and Repair Workers, General pull the average up in St. Louis, MO-IL. Among the 30 covered occupations in St. Louis, MO-IL, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General ranks #12 by median pay. In the St. Louis, MO-IL wage ladder of covered occupations, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General sits between Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers at $58,240 and Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks at $49,970. Maintenance and Repair Workers, General accounts for 1.0% of all employment in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area. The average covered metro employs 24,810 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General; St. Louis, MO-IL employs 0.5 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Missouri

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Missouri; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $43,945.74 of the $53,930 gross is kept ($1,690.22 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 18.51%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 15.70% at the 10th percentile, 17.25% at the 25th percentile, 19.53% at the 75th percentile, 21.96% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $15,950.20 on a gross rise of $21,080.

The same engine at the other published points of the St. Louis, MO-IL wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $30,618.98 a year at the 10th percentile to $61,908.44 at the 90th — a spread of $31,289.46 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the St. Louis, MO-IL median wage of $49,990 takes home $40,979.44 a year ($1,576.13 per paycheck, deduction rate 18.02%). The Maintenance and Repair Workers, General median take-home of $43,945.74 sits $2,966.30 (above that area-wide figure.

Multi-state metro area. St. Louis, MO-IL also covers parts of Illinois. The take-home estimate above uses Missouri rules — the metro area's primary state. If the job is based in another part of the metro area, the state tax changes: see the Illinois paycheck calculator.

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Take-home pay for $53,930 in Missouri

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Maintenance and Repair Workers, General earns $49,590 a year ($23.84 an hour). The St. Louis, MO-IL median of $53,930 is $4,340 (8.8%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $56,440 a year in St. Louis, MO-IL against $53,780 nationally, a gap of $2,660 (4.9%).

Set against the whole local market, the Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 90th percentile of $79,330 is 69% of the St. Louis, MO-IL all-occupations 90th percentile ($115,090), and its 10th percentile of $36,320 is 116% of the area-wide 10th ($31,200).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.