Maintenance Technician Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

PropertyManagerHires had 3,384 open maintenance technician listings from 224 employers on November 5, 2026.

649 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 1,685 in the previous 30 days.

At least 3.9% of maintenance technician listings were part-time on November 5, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit maintenance technician listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was health insurance, in 67.6% of listings, followed by paid time off (66.5%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all maintenance technician listings.

BLS publishes no maintenance technician-only wage, so the figure here is for general maintenance and repair workers (SOC 49-9071), the closest BLS occupation, which covers maintenance workers in all industries.

The median wage for that occupation was $23.84 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Maintenance and Repair Workers, General (SOC 49-9071), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $19.64 to $30.10 an hour.

Employers hiring maintenance technicians on PropertyManagerHires advertise a median of $23.00 an hour across 107 employers on November 5, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Texas had the most open maintenance technician listings on November 5, 2026, with 464 (13.7% of the national total).

Florida followed with 326 (9.6%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with maintenance technician openings in Texas.

224 employers had open maintenance technician listings on PropertyManagerHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 31% of them.

41 employers (18.3%) had exactly one open maintenance technician listing.

Employers reported 1,529,700 general maintenance and repair workers on payroll in May 2025, across all industries (BLS OEWS, SOC 49-9071).

316,160 of those workers were in the real estate industry in May 2025, its largest occupation at 17.21% of industry jobs, with a median of $48,360 a year (BLS OEWS industry estimates, NAICS 531).

BLS projects employment of general maintenance and repair workers, self-employed included, to grow 4.2% from 2025 to 2035, from 1,621,800 to 1,690,500 jobs, with about 148,700 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid maintenance technician listing on PropertyManagerHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all maintenance technician jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no separate occupation for apartment or property maintenance technicians; the wage figures are for all general maintenance and repair workers (SOC 49-9071), a broader group. OEWS covers payroll employees only.