Rigger Salary in Massachusetts

How much does a Rigger make in Massachusetts?

As of July 01, 2026, the average salary for a Rigger in Massachusetts is $51,686 per year, which breaks down to an hourly rate of $25.

However, a Rigger's salary can vary significantly. Here’s a look at the typical salary range:

Top Earners (90th percentile): $63,605
Majority Range (25th-75th percentile): $48,602 to $57,924
Entry-Level (10th percentile): $45,795

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Rigger Salaries by Percentile

	Annual Salary	Monthly Pay	Weekly Pay	Hourly Wage
75th Percentile	$57,924	$4,827	$1,114	$28
Average	$51,686	$4,307	$994	$25
25th Percentile	$48,602	$4,050	$935	$23

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Key Factors That Influence Rigger Salaries

A Rigger's salary isn't a fixed number. It's shaped by several important factors. Below, we'll explore how geographic location, and company size can directly affect your earning potential.

How Do Rigger Salaries Vary from State to State?

Your salary can change significantly depending on where you work. States with a higher cost of living and strong industrial sectors often pay more to attract Riggers. For example, consider the average annual salaries in these key locations:

District of Columbia: $52,583.
California: $52,384.
Massachusetts: $51,686.

District of Columbia $52,583 California $52,384 Massachusetts $51,686 Washington $51,496 New Jersey $51,477 Alaska $51,410 Connecticut $50,755 New York $50,489

Hawaii $49,639 Rhode Island $49,240 Maryland $48,969 Minnesota $48,599 Colorado $48,456 Illinois $48,409 Oregon $48,228 Delaware $48,095

New Hampshire $48,012 Virginia $47,825 Pennsylvania $47,278 Nevada $47,003 North Dakota $46,913 Michigan $46,770 Wisconsin $46,718 Vermont $46,613

Texas $46,324 Maine $46,305 Arizona $46,276 Ohio $46,243 Georgia $45,806 Indiana $45,588 Wyoming $45,545 Utah $45,478

Iowa $45,450 Kansas $45,222 Louisiana $45,155 North Carolina $45,132 Missouri $45,122 Florida $44,937 Montana $44,837 Nebraska $44,742

Kentucky $44,690 South Carolina $44,500 Tennessee $44,381 Idaho $44,334 New Mexico $43,987 Oklahoma $43,911 Alabama $43,631 South Dakota $43,161

Arkansas $42,904 West Virginia $42,767 Mississippi $42,353

Top Paying Cities for Riggers

Salaries can also vary between different cities. Major metropolitan areas or cities with a high demand for technicians often offer more competitive pay. Here are a few examples of average annual salaries in different U.S. cities:

Agawam: $48,991
Amherst: $49,349
Barre: $49,842

Agawam, MA $48,991 Amherst, MA $49,349 Barre, MA $49,842 Belchertown, MA $49,303 Blandford, MA $49,211 Bondsville, MA $49,312 Brimfield, MA $49,579 Chester, MA $49,007

Chesterfield, MA $49,013 Chicopee, MA $48,985 Cummington, MA $48,881 Easthampton, MA $49,101 East Longmeadow, MA $49,020 East Otis, MA $49,220 Feeding Hills, MA $49,018 Gilbertville, MA $49,708

Goshen, MA $49,009 Granby, MA $49,114 Granville, MA $49,377 Hadley, MA $49,219 Hampden, MA $49,121 Hardwick, MA $49,735 Hatfield, MA $49,228 Haydenville, MA $49,168

Holyoke, MA $49,030 Huntington, MA $49,074 Leeds, MA $49,106 Leverett, MA $49,411 Ludlow, MA $49,075 Monson, MA $49,315 North Amherst, MA $49,316 Northampton, MA $49,140

Florence, MA $49,110 North Hatfield, MA $49,205 Oakham, MA $49,823 Palmer, MA $49,373 Plainfield, MA $48,865 Russell, MA $49,204 Shutesbury, MA $49,487 Southampton, MA $49,074

South Barre, MA $49,823 South Hadley, MA $49,087 Southwick, MA $49,193 Thorndike, MA $49,309 Three Rivers, MA $49,242 Wales, MA $49,535 Ware, MA $49,539 Warren, MA $49,618

West Chesterfield, MA $49,008 Westfield, MA $49,089 West Hatfield, MA $49,179 West Springfield, MA $48,988 West Warren, MA $49,545 Whately, MA $49,208 Wheelwright, MA $49,791 Wilbraham, MA $49,099

Williamsburg, MA $49,066 Woronoco, MA $49,154 Worthington, MA $48,906 Springfield, MA $48,983 Longmeadow, MA $49,000 Indian Orchard, MA $49,005 Pittsfield, MA $48,722 Adams, MA $48,671

Ashley Falls, MA $49,326 Becket, MA $48,859 Berkshire, MA $48,717 Cheshire, MA $48,703 Dalton, MA $48,722 Glendale, MA $48,738 Great Barrington, MA $49,052 Hinsdale, MA $48,761

Housatonic, MA $48,746 Lanesboro, MA $48,684 Lee, MA $48,773 Lenox, MA $48,713 Lenox Dale, MA $48,720 Middlefield, MA $48,801 Mill River, MA $49,205 Monterey, MA $49,043

North Adams, MA $48,647 North Egremont, MA $48,995 Otis, MA $49,087 Richmond, MA $48,670 Sandisfield, MA $49,339 Savoy, MA $48,760 Sheffield, MA $49,246 South Egremont, MA $49,150

Southfield, MA $49,362 South Lee, MA $48,816 Stockbridge, MA $48,714 Tyringham, MA $48,915 West Stockbridge, MA $48,680 Williamstown, MA $48,497 Windsor, MA $48,752 Greenfield, MA $49,283

Ashfield, MA $48,984 Athol, MA $49,864 Bernardston, MA $49,368 Buckland, MA $48,989 Charlemont, MA $48,890 Colrain, MA $49,190 Conway, MA $49,157 Deerfield, MA $49,270

Drury, MA $48,790 Erving, MA $49,541 Heath, MA $48,950 Lake Pleasant, MA $49,444 Millers Falls, MA $49,489 Monroe Bridge, MA $48,716 Montague, MA $49,424 Gill, MA $49,451

New Salem, MA $49,626 Northfield, MA $49,484 Orange, MA $49,697 Petersham, MA $49,831 Rowe, MA $48,815 Royalston, MA $49,733 Shelburne Falls, MA $49,135 South Deerfield, MA $49,242

Sunderland, MA $49,362 Turners Falls, MA $49,418 Warwick, MA $49,511 Wendell, MA $49,557 Wendell Depot, MA $49,574 Fitchburg, MA $50,204 Ashburnham, MA $50,050 Ashby, MA $50,192

Ayer, MA $50,639 Devens, MA $50,525 Baldwinville, MA $49,909 East Templeton, MA $49,963 Gardner, MA $50,018 Westminster, MA $50,022 Groton, MA $50,679 Harvard, MA $50,584

Hubbardston, MA $49,971 Leominster, MA $50,215 Littleton, MA $50,763 Lunenburg, MA $50,374 Pepperell, MA $50,670 Shirley, MA $50,518 Still River, MA $50,458 Templeton, MA $49,961

Townsend, MA $50,485 West Groton, MA $50,586 West Townsend, MA $50,369 Winchendon, MA $49,874 Winchendon Springs, MA $49,919 Auburn, MA $49,767 North Dartmouth, MA $50,062 South Dartmouth, MA $50,065

North Attleboro, MA $49,815 Plainville, MA $50,158 Attleboro Falls, MA $49,886 North Dighton, MA $49,995 Norton, MA $50,666 Raynham, MA $50,935 Raynham Center, MA $50,883 Rehoboth, MA $49,484

Rochester, MA $50,182 Seekonk, MA $49,256 Swansea, MA $49,575 Berkley, MA $50,233 Taunton, MA $50,532 Westport, MA $50,045 Westport Point, MA $50,040 Berlin, MA $50,124

Cataumet, MA $50,293 Blackstone, MA $49,929 Boylston, MA $49,850 Brookfield, MA $49,744 Charlton, MA $49,806 Charlton City, MA $49,808 Charlton Depot, MA $49,808 Clinton, MA $50,058

East Brookfield, MA $49,785 Douglas, MA $49,870 East Princeton, MA $49,973 Fiskdale, MA $49,723 Grafton, MA $49,824 Holden, MA $49,777 Holland, MA $49,641 Jefferson, MA $49,820

Lancaster, MA $50,295 Leicester, MA $49,771 Linwood, MA $49,950 Manchaug, MA $49,833 Millbury, MA $49,771 Millville, MA $49,896 New Braintree, MA $49,772 Northborough, MA $49,925

Northbridge, MA $49,934 North Brookfield, MA $49,787 North Grafton, MA $49,794 North Oxford, MA $49,790 North Uxbridge, MA $49,906 Oxford, MA $49,815 Princeton, MA $49,966 Rochdale, MA $49,775

Rutland, MA $49,851 Shrewsbury, MA $49,777 Southbridge, MA $49,796 South Grafton, MA $49,855 South Lancaster, MA $50,177 Spencer, MA $49,788 Sterling, MA $50,030 Sturbridge, MA $49,760

Upton, MA $49,994 Uxbridge, MA $49,921 Webster, MA $49,852 Dudley, MA $49,835 Westborough, MA $49,965 West Boylston, MA $49,829 West Brookfield, MA $49,690 West Millbury, MA $49,776

Whitinsville, MA $49,919 Sutton, MA $49,828 Worcester, MA $49,757 East Walpole, MA $51,316 Cherry Valley, MA $49,763 Paxton, MA $49,779 Framingham, MA $50,918 Village Of Nagog Woods, MA $50,835

Boxborough, MA $50,672 Acton, MA $50,833 Ashland, MA $50,608 Bedford, MA $51,043 Hanscom Afb, MA $51,321 Bolton, MA $50,383 Carlisle, MA $50,885 Concord, MA $51,013

Fayville, MA $50,515 Holliston, MA $50,595 Hopedale, MA $50,173 Hopkinton, MA $50,232 Hudson, MA $50,457 Marlborough, MA $50,374 Maynard, MA $50,817 Mendon, MA $50,082

Milford, MA $50,255 Natick, MA $51,543 Sherborn, MA $51,191 Southborough, MA $50,368 Foxboro, MA $50,909 Franklin, MA $50,365 Greenbush, MA $51,399 Green Harbor, MA $51,121

Hingham, MA $51,735 Hull, MA $52,256 Humarock, MA $51,185 Mansfield, MA $50,832 Marshfield, MA $51,148 Marshfield Hills, MA $51,234 Medfield, MA $51,292 Medway, MA $50,586

Millis, MA $50,962 Minot, MA $51,399 Norfolk, MA $50,814 North Marshfield, MA $51,121 North Scituate, MA $51,486 Norwell, MA $51,347 Norwood, MA $51,608 Ocean Bluff, MA $51,121

Scituate, MA $51,449 Sharon, MA $51,181 Sheldonville, MA $50,374 South Walpole, MA $50,995 Stoughton, MA $51,220 Walpole, MA $51,193 Westwood, MA $51,908 Wrentham, MA $50,366

Boston, MA $52,773 Roxbury, MA $52,769 Roxbury Crossing, MA $52,770 Dorchester, MA $52,755 Dorchester Center, MA $52,718 Mattapan, MA $52,685 Charlestown, MA $52,767 Jamaica Plain, MA $52,748

Roslindale, MA $52,675 West Roxbury, MA $52,597 Allston, MA $52,758 Brighton, MA $52,731 Hyde Park, MA $52,515 Readville, MA $52,484 Cambridge, MA $52,738 Somerville, MA $52,763

Malden, MA $52,659 Everett, MA $52,732 Chelsea, MA $52,739 Revere, MA $52,657 Winthrop, MA $52,703 Medford, MA $52,682 West Medford, MA $52,639 Quincy, MA $52,340

Melrose, MA $52,493 Stoneham, MA $52,251 Braintree, MA $51,789 Milton, MA $52,422 Milton Village, MA $52,592 Weymouth, MA $51,717 East Weymouth, MA $51,775 South Weymouth, MA $51,348

North Weymouth, MA $52,222 East Boston, MA $52,773 Brockton, MA $51,196 Avon, MA $51,219 Bridgewater, MA $51,082 Bryantville, MA $51,120 Carver, MA $50,596 Duxbury, MA $50,981

East Bridgewater, MA $51,178 Easton, MA $51,186 Elmwood, MA $51,156 Halifax, MA $51,073 Hanover, MA $51,241 Hanson, MA $51,145 Holbrook, MA $51,242 Middleboro, MA $50,533

Manomet, MA $50,682 Lakeville, MA $50,382 Monponsett, MA $51,090 Abington, MA $51,222 North Carver, MA $50,741 North Easton, MA $51,196 North Pembroke, MA $51,157 Pembroke, MA $51,135

Plymouth, MA $50,615 Kingston, MA $50,936 South Carver, MA $50,530 Plympton, MA $50,915 Randolph, MA $51,427 Rockland, MA $51,245 South Easton, MA $51,158 West Bridgewater, MA $51,193

White Horse Beach, MA $50,711 Whitman, MA $51,203 Lexington, MA $51,839 Brookline, MA $52,747 Brookline Village, MA $52,754 Waltham, MA $52,156 North Waltham, MA $52,447 New Town, MA $52,610

Babson Park, MA $52,143 Newton, MA $52,653 Newton Center, MA $52,617 Newtonville, MA $52,582 Newton Highlands, MA $52,571 Newton Lower Falls, MA $52,333 Newton Upper Falls, MA $52,511 West Newton, MA $52,497

Auburndale, MA $52,394 Chestnut Hill, MA $52,711 Waban, MA $52,475 Watertown, MA $52,697 Arlington, MA $52,567 Arlington Heights, MA $52,541 Belmont, MA $52,602 Waverley, MA $52,651

Wellesley Hills, MA $52,142 Wellesley, MA $51,955 Needham, MA $52,243 Weston, MA $51,929 Needham Heights, MA $52,425 Nonantum, MA $52,610 Buzzards Bay, MA $50,414 Lincoln, MA $51,526

Stow, MA $50,639 Sudbury, MA $51,049 Wayland, MA $51,480 Woodville, MA $50,193 Woburn, MA $51,783 Burlington, MA $51,309 Andover, MA $50,274 Billerica, MA $50,879

Chelmsford, MA $50,913 Dracut, MA $50,825 Dunstable, MA $50,804 Haverhill, MA $50,226 Georgetown, MA $50,308 Groveland, MA $50,258 Lawrence, MA $50,166 Methuen, MA $50,175

North Andover, MA $50,226 Lowell, MA $50,921 Merrimac, MA $50,201 North Billerica, MA $50,900 North Chelmsford, MA $50,907 North Reading, MA $50,724 Nutting Lake, MA $50,903 Pinehurst, MA $50,960

Reading, MA $51,218 Tewksbury, MA $50,726 Tyngsboro, MA $50,854 Wakefield, MA $51,846 West Boxford, MA $50,318 Westford, MA $50,857 Wilmington, MA $50,770 Winchester, MA $52,355

Lynn, MA $52,290 Saugus, MA $52,356 Swampscott, MA $52,037 Nahant, MA $52,445 Amesbury, MA $50,173 Beverly, MA $51,110 Boxford, MA $50,296 Byfield, MA $50,341

Danvers, MA $51,011 Essex, MA $50,717 Gloucester, MA $50,772 Hamilton, MA $50,816 Hathorne, MA $50,840 Chilmark, MA $50,224 East Falmouth, MA $50,317 East Sandwich, MA $50,531

East Wareham, MA $50,403 Edgartown, MA $50,381 Falmouth, MA $50,246 Woods Hole, MA $50,145 Menemsha, MA $50,242 Monument Beach, MA $50,328 Nantucket, MA $50,669 North Falmouth, MA $50,264

Oak Bluffs, MA $50,330 Onset, MA $50,341 Pocasset, MA $50,310 Sagamore, MA $50,486 Sagamore Beach, MA $50,510 Sandwich, MA $50,492 Siasconset, MA $50,617 Silver Beach, MA $50,241

Vineyard Haven, MA $50,280 Wareham, MA $50,299 West Chop, MA $50,295 West Falmouth, MA $50,232 West Tisbury, MA $50,267 West Wareham, MA $50,277 Hyannis, MA $50,706 Barnstable, MA $50,595

Brewster, MA $50,665 Centerville, MA $50,578 Chatham, MA $50,699 Cotuit, MA $50,476 Ipswich, MA $50,536 Cummaquid, MA $50,610 Lynnfield, MA $51,398 Manchester, MA $51,025

Marblehead, MA $51,626 Middleton, MA $50,617 Newburyport, MA $50,241 Newbury, MA $50,333 Salisbury, MA $50,135 Peabody, MA $51,475 Prides Crossing, MA $51,142 Rockport, MA $50,670

Rowley, MA $50,419 Salem, MA $51,458 South Hamilton, MA $50,734 Topsfield, MA $50,571 Wenham, MA $50,859 West Newbury, MA $50,258 Accord, MA $51,382 Bellingham, MA $50,158

Brant Rock, MA $51,018 Canton, MA $51,460 Cohasset, MA $51,726 Dedham, MA $52,338 Dover, MA $51,688 East Mansfield, MA $51,033 Dennis, MA $50,653 Dennis Port, MA $50,752

East Dennis, MA $50,615 Eastham, MA $50,596 East Orleans, MA $50,408 Forestdale, MA $50,425 Harwich, MA $50,708 Harwich Port, MA $50,731 Hyannis Port, MA $50,612 Marstons Mills, MA $50,522

Mashpee, MA $50,410 North Chatham, MA $50,689 North Eastham, MA $50,596 North Truro, MA $50,507 Orleans, MA $50,641 Osterville, MA $50,527 Provincetown, MA $50,585 South Chatham, MA $50,711

South Dennis, MA $50,711 South Harwich, MA $50,718 South Orleans, MA $50,657 South Wellfleet, MA $50,490 South Yarmouth, MA $50,739 Truro, MA $50,469 Wellfleet, MA $50,529 West Barnstable, MA $50,587

West Chatham, MA $50,707 West Dennis, MA $50,720 West Harwich, MA $50,732 West Hyannisport, MA $50,642 West Yarmouth, MA $50,698 Yarmouth Port, MA $50,675 Assonet, MA $50,108 Attleboro, MA $49,662

Chartley, MA $50,712 Cuttyhunk, MA $50,122 Dartmouth, MA $50,063 Dighton, MA $49,831 East Freetown, MA $50,118 East Taunton, MA $50,496 Fairhaven, MA $50,064 Fall River, MA $49,977

Somerset, MA $49,733 Marion, MA $50,173 Mattapoisett, MA $50,089 New Bedford, MA $50,061 Acushnet, MA $50,078

Rigger Salary by Company Size: Startups vs. Enterprise

Rigger salary potential scales significantly with company size. Data shows that Enterprise companies (5,000+ employees) pay the highest average salary at around $51,686. While startup companies pay approximate $51,686.

Rigger Salary by Company Size

Company Size	Employees	Average Salary
Startup	1~50	$51,686
Growth Stage	51~500	$51,686
Established	501~5000	$51,686
Enterprise	5000+	$51,686

Rigger Salary: Hourly Rate, Weekly Pay, and Monthly Pay

Understanding how a Rigger's annual salary breaks down can help with budgeting. Below, you can see the average hourly rate, weekly pay, and monthly pay for this role. Use the buttons to switch between different pay periods.

Last Updated on July 01, 2026

$48,602

Average $51,686/year

$57,924

$4,050

Average $4,307/month

$4,827

$935

Average $994/week

$1,114

$23

Average $25/hour

$28

	Annual Salary	Monthly Pay	Weekly Pay	Hourly Wage
75th Percentile	$57,924	$4,827	$1,114	$28
Average	$51,686	$4,307	$994	$25
25th Percentile	$48,602	$4,050	$935	$23

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