Auto Body Technician Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

AutoTechHires had 1,575 open auto body technician listings from 342 employers on November 13, 2026.

338 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 637 in the previous 30 days.

At least 0.3% of auto body technician listings were part-time on November 13, 2026.

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

The benefit auto body technician listings named most often on November 13, 2026 was paid time off, in 69.8% of listings, followed by 401(k) plan (65.7%).

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

To browse the openings themselves, see all auto body technician listings.

The federal figure here is for automotive body and related repairers (SOC 49-3021), the exact BLS occupation for auto body and collision technicians.

The median wage for that occupation was $26.39 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Automotive Body and Related Repairers (SOC 49-3021), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $21.99 to $33.27 an hour.

For pay by state, percentile and experience, see the auto body technician salary guide.

Texas had the most open auto body technician listings on November 13, 2026, with 121 (7.7% of the national total).

Florida followed with 107 (6.8%).

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

342 employers had open auto body technician listings on AutoTechHires on November 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 70.2% of them.

267 employers (78.1%) had exactly one open auto body technician listing.

The largest single employer, Caliber Collision, posted 28.5% of all auto body technician listings, so this sample leans toward large employers.

Employers reported 149,310 automotive body and related repairers on payroll in May 2025, at a median of $26.39 an hour ($54,890 a year); the count leaves out the self-employed (BLS OEWS, SOC 49-3021).

BLS projects employment of automotive body and related repairers to grow about 4% from 2025 to 2035, from 163,200 to 169,300 jobs (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

For the collision technician shortage, see our analysis.

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

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all auto body 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.

Frame, paintless dent repair and ADAS calibration technician listings are counted with this role, because BLS counts them in SOC 49-3021. Many paintless dent repair technicians are self-employed, and OEWS covers payroll employees only.