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What the pay looks like

The national median is $67,820 a year and the bottom tenth start near $46,680. The published occupation is called Calibration Technologists and Technicians, which is the closest official match and lumps bench calibration work in with plant instrumentation work. Instrument techs at refineries, chemical plants and power stations generally sit in the upper half of this range, and overtime pushes some of them well past the top of it.