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

AutoTechHires had 11,568 open automotive technician listings from 2,757 employers on November 13, 2026.

2,100 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 4,094 in the previous 30 days.

At least 0.7% of automotive 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 automotive technician listings named most often on November 13, 2026 was paid time off, in 71.8% of listings, followed by health insurance (55.2%).

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

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

The federal figure here is for automotive service technicians and mechanics (SOC 49-3023), the exact BLS occupation for automotive technicians.

The median wage for that occupation was $24.34 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics (SOC 49-3023), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $18.70 to $33.86 an hour.

Employers hiring automotive technicians on AutoTechHires advertise a median of $33.50 an hour across 1,132 employers on November 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

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

Florida had the most open automotive technician listings on November 13, 2026, with 923 (8% of the national total).

Texas followed with 891 (7.7%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with automotive technician openings in Florida.

2,757 employers had open automotive technician listings on AutoTechHires on November 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 41.9% of them.

1,700 employers (61.7%) had exactly one open automotive technician listing.

The largest single employer, Mavis Tire Express Services, posted 20.3% of all automotive technician listings, so this sample leans toward large employers.

Employers reported 704,640 automotive service technicians and mechanics on payroll in May 2025, at a median of $24.34 an hour ($50,620 a year); the count leaves out the self-employed (BLS OEWS, SOC 49-3023).

BLS projects employment of automotive service technicians and mechanics to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, from 825,800 to 866,700 jobs, which it rates faster than average (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

BLS expects about 66,200 openings for automotive service technicians and mechanics in an average year from 2025 to 2035, most of them from replacing workers who retire or change jobs (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025-35 projections).

For the automotive technician shortage, see our analysis.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid automotive 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 automotive 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.

Master, general-service, diagnostic, transmission, EV and fleet technician listings are counted with this role, because BLS counts them all in SOC 49-3023. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed (14.6% in 2025), which is why the 2025 projections base (825,800) is above the May 2025 payroll count (704,640).