SALARY · BUS AND TRUCK MECHANICS AND DIESEL ENGINE SPECIALISTS · ALABAMA

Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists salary in Alabama

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists in Alabama, BLS put the median at $50,470 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$50,470

$24 per hour at the median · That is $11,300 (18.3 percent) below the national median of $61,770 for this occupation.

$54,120Mean annual salary
$26Mean hourly wage
$6,130People employed in this job in Alabama

Salary range

25th: $45,940Median: $50,47075th: $61,030
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$45,940
Median (50th percentile)$50,470
75th percentile$61,030
Mean$54,120

The middle half of workers earned from $45,940 to $61,030 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$40,643 a year
$3,387 a month
Federal tax $3,876 · FICA $3,861 · State tax $2,090

Caveat: the Alabama 2026 Form 40 return instruction booklet was not retrieved as a single document. Brackets, standard deduction table and federal tax deduction rest on the 2026 Form 40ES worksheet and statute.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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