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City of San Jose / Transportation / Maintenance Worker II

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Maintenance Worker II

Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.

88 employees hold this title in Transportation. Median total compensation for the role is $126,199, below the department median of $135,422.

Employees
88
Total payroll
$10.7M
Role median
$126,199
Agency median
$135,422
Comparison
Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$2,577$204,123+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 88 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Maintenance Worker II pay vs. the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area

Across all employers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, the median wage for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General — about 7,750 people — is $63,220. Transportation pays a median base salary of $84,940 for this role, 34% above that figureabout the 79th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Transportation sits in the local pay range

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$46,680
$51,550
$63,220
$80,120
$99,430
Transportation median · $84,940

The bar is the range of annual wages for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General across every employer in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Transportation’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General — about 1,529,700 people — is $49,590. Transportation’s median base salary is 71% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$35,350
$40,840
$49,590
$62,620
$77,180
Transportation median · $84,940

Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 110 of 121 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Transportation is $120,633, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Compare departments

This role across City of San Jose

Maintenance Worker II is held in 4 City of San Jose departments. In Transportation, the median of $126,199 ranks #2 of 4.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Police
$173,187 · 1
Airport
$111,032 · 13

Median total compensation for the Maintenance Worker II role in other City of San Josedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Compare jurisdictions

Maintenance Worker beyond City of San Jose

This role is reported in 11 jurisdictions. In City of San Jose, the median of $111,734 ranks #1 of 11. See Maintenance Worker across all of City of San Jose

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

Illinois
$95,650 · 38
New York City
$82,856 · 1,955
City of Las Vegas
$69,013 · 470
New Jersey
$27,986 · 18
Missouri
$23,206 · 1,614

Median total compensation for comparable Maintenance Workerroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.

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