Smart Hands Technician Salary in Columbus, OH

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BLS does not measure Smart Hands Technician as its own occupation, so this page uses Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers (SOC 49-2011, closest proxy). The median annual wage in Columbus, OH was $48,160 (BLS, May 2025), and the middle half earned $39,470 to $60,620. That is $350 above the national median of $47,810.

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Closest proxy

Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers is the closest occupational proxy based on the work described, not a separate data center wage series. BLS does not distinguish this title, experience level, shift, credentials or data center employers. Confirm the actual duties before using this comparison.

Columbus, OH

Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, Columbus, OH, annual wages
Point	Annual wage	Meaning
10th percentile	$37,000	10% of workers in this occupation and area earned less than this.
25th percentile	$39,470	25% earned less than this.
Median	$48,160	Half earned less, half earned more.
75th percentile	$60,620	75% earned less than this.
90th percentile	$88,550	90% earned less than this.
Mean	$53,750	Average wage.

Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, Columbus, OH, hourly wages
Point	Hourly wage	Meaning
10th percentile	$17.79	10% of workers in this occupation and area earned less than this.
25th percentile	$18.98	25% earned less than this.
Median	$23.15	Half earned less, half earned more.
75th percentile	$29.15	75% earned less than this.
90th percentile	$42.57	90% earned less than this.
Mean	$25.84	Average wage.

United States

Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, United States, annual wages
Point	Annual wage	Meaning
10th percentile	$35,910	10% of workers in this occupation and area earned less than this.
25th percentile	$38,900	25% earned less than this.
Median	$47,810	Half earned less, half earned more.
75th percentile	$59,870	75% earned less than this.
90th percentile	$71,730	90% earned less than this.
Mean	$50,880	Average wage.

Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, United States, hourly wages
Point	Hourly wage	Meaning
10th percentile	$17.26	10% of workers in this occupation and area earned less than this.
25th percentile	$18.7	25% earned less than this.
Median	$22.99	Half earned less, half earned more.
75th percentile	$28.78	75% earned less than this.
90th percentile	$34.49	90% earned less than this.
Mean	$24.46	Average wage.

What BLS wages include: base pay plus any guaranteed or production-based incentive pay. What they leave out: overtime, discretionary bonus, benefits, per diem and relocation.

Employment: 380. Location quotient: 0.81.

Location quotient measures job concentration, not pay. A value above 1 means the occupation makes up a larger share of local jobs than it does nationally. It says nothing about wages.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. SOC 49-2011 Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, Columbus, OH. View this release at BLS.

Pay relative to all occupations

Median for this occupation divided by the all-occupations median, same area, same annual basis
Measure	Value
This occupation, median	$48,160
All occupations (SOC 00-0000), median	$51,340
Relative wage	0.94 times

A ratio of 1.00 means the same median as all workers in the area. It is arithmetic on two BLS medians, not a BLS statistic.

Change since the prior BLS release

Median annual wage, same SOC and same BLS area code, two releases
Reference period	Median
May 2024	$45,820
May 2025	$48,160
Difference	+$2,340 (+5.1%)

Two published BLS values, shown as released. Not annualized, not adjusted for inflation, and BLS metro boundaries and survey panels can differ between releases.

What is inside the BLS pay figure

For an operations offer, check what the quoted pay already includes. BLS includes on-call pay but excludes shift differentials. Do not add on-call pay twice when comparing the offer.

Pay components for Data Center Technicians, Remote Hands & NOC roles against the BLS wage definition
Component	In the BLS figure?	Note
Base rate and guaranteed pay	Included	BLS counts the "base rate" and "guaranteed pay".
Production and incentive pay	Included	BLS counts "incentive pay including commissions and production bonuses".
On-call pay matters here	Included	BLS lists "on-call pay" and "hazardous-duty pay" as wages.
Overtime pay	Left out	BLS excludes "overtime pay". Straight-time pay only.
Shift differentials matters here	Left out	BLS excludes "shift differentials", so night and weekend premiums are not in the figure.
Project-completion and discretionary bonuses	Depends on the terms	Guaranteed pay and production incentives are included. Discretionary nonproduction bonuses are excluded. Check how the payment is defined.
Per diem, travel and relocation	Left out	BLS does not name these as wages. They are expense reimbursements and are not in the figure.
Benefits and employer costs	Left out	BLS excludes "employer costs for supplementary benefits".

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Recruiter's read

Qualitative, not from BLS data.

Smart Hands Technician candidates are usually screened on rack and stack, fiber patching, cable tracing and labeling; working tickets against SLAs with remote engineers; vendor and customer escort discipline.

We usually find them through colocation and managed service provider techs; IT field dispatch techs; telecom central office techs. We contact working people directly rather than relying on job applications.

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What the published rows say about Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH

Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH is represented here by Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, SOC 49-2011, in the May 2025 OEWS release. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, data Center Headhunters uses the proxy crosswalk for this title; the occupation row, rather than a separate survey of Smart Hands Technician, supplies the figures on this page. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, the published annual median is $48,160 and the middle-half endpoints are $39,470 and $60,620.

The Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH middle-half band spans $21,150 on the annual basis. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, its lower quarter-to-median distance is $8,690, compared with $12,460 from the median to the upper quarter. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, the upper interval is at least as wide as the other interval in this row. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, for an offer against this Smart Hands Technician crosswalk, these are published reference points, not experience grades; the width does not establish a reason for differences between individual workers.

At $48,160, the Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH median is $350 above the $47,810 national median for the same SOC 49-2011 and annual basis. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, that comparison is arithmetic on two May 2025 BLS rows. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, it is not a cost-of-living adjustment for Columbus, OH, and it does not establish a separate data center premium for Smart Hands Technician.

Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH can also be compared with Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH, where the annual median for Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers is $48,560 in May 2025. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, this is among the two nearest usable metropolitan reference points to the Census area internal point. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, the Smart Hands Technician crosswalk comparison differs by $400 from the Columbus, OH median.

Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH can also be compared with Parkersburg-Vienna, WV, where the annual median for Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers is $44,230 in May 2025. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, this is among the two nearest usable metropolitan reference points to the Census area internal point. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, the Smart Hands Technician crosswalk comparison differs by $3,930 from the Columbus, OH median.

Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH has no local industry-by-occupation wage breakdown in the loaded OEWS rows. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, the highest published national industry medians loaded for SOC 49-2011 are Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing at $77,420 and Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences at $70,940. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, these May 2025 observations describe the national Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers occupation in those industries, not the pay of data center employers in Columbus, OH; they cannot support a local industry ranking.

The Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH matched median changed from $45,820 in May 2024 to $48,160 in May 2025, a difference of $2,340 up. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, both observations use SOC 49-2011, area code 18140 and the same annual wage basis. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, this Smart Hands Technician comparison reports the released values without adjusting for inflation, annualizing the change or attributing it to a particular employer.

Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH uses the OEWS straight-time wage definition, not a complete cost-to-employ budget. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, for an offer mapped to Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers, separate overtime, shift differentials and expense reimbursements from the annual figures for Columbus, OH; BLS excludes those categories. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, on-call pay, guaranteed pay and production incentives are included under the wage definition. For Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH, no Smart Hands Technician-specific per diem, travel allowance or relocation amount is observed in this row, so this May 2025 page adds no dollar allowance on top.

Questions about Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH

Which BLS row supports Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH?

Smart Hands Technician is mapped to SOC 49-2011, Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers; the May 2025 Columbus, OH annual median is $48,160. The mapping is proxy, not a separate survey of this niche title.

Does the Columbus, OH figure show all offer costs for Smart Hands Technician?

Smart Hands Technician pay in Columbus, OH uses straight-time OEWS wages. Overtime and shift differentials are excluded; on-call and guaranteed pay are included. No allowance for travel or relocation is added to this 49-2011 observation.

Nearest-area selection uses Census Gazetteer internal points, not road distance. Source: 2025 Census Gazetteer.