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

AutoTechHires had 4,094 open lube technician listings from 1,079 employers on November 14, 2026.

317 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 562 in the previous 30 days.

At least 29.6% of lube technician listings were part-time on November 14, 2026.

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

The benefit lube technician listings named most often on November 14, 2026 was dental or vision coverage, in 64.9% of listings, followed by paid time off (60.7%).

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

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

BLS publishes no lube technician-only wage, so the figure here is for automotive and watercraft service attendants (SOC 53-6031), the closest available BLS occupation, which also counts fuel-station and marina attendants.

The median wage for that occupation was $17.15 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants (SOC 53-6031), May 2025 (closest available)).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $15.05 to $18.90 an hour.

Employers hiring lube technicians on AutoTechHires advertise a median of $18.00 an hour across 564 employers on November 14, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

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

Texas had the most open lube technician listings on November 14, 2026, with 716 (17.5% of the national total).

Florida followed with 451 (11%).

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

1,079 employers had open lube technician listings on AutoTechHires on November 14, 2026, and the five largest posted 65% of them.

949 employers (88%) had exactly one open lube technician listing.

The largest single employer, Driven Brands, posted 38.4% of all lube technician listings, so this sample leans toward large employers.

BLS has no oil-change technician occupation; the closest one, automotive and watercraft service attendants, had 102,010 workers on payroll in May 2025 at a median of $17.15 an hour, and it also counts fuel-station and marina attendants (BLS OEWS, SOC 53-6031).

BLS projects employment of automotive and watercraft service attendants to grow 3.8% from 2025 to 2035, from 102,400 to 106,300 jobs, with about 12,900 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid lube 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 lube 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 lube or oil-change technician occupation. The BLS figures on this page are for automotive and watercraft service attendants (SOC 53-6031), the closest available occupation, which also counts fuel-station and marina attendants.