Workforce Insights

Aviation maintenance workforce intelligence.

Compensation, hiring demand and pipeline supply for aviation maintenance, sourced and cited, starting with South Florida and expanding to Southern California.

13,100
Aircraft and avionics technician openings projected each year in the United States, 2025 to 2035.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
1 in 3
Available aviation maintenance school seats remain unfilled.
ATEC 2025 Pipeline Report
125,000
New maintenance technicians projected to be needed in North America through 2045 in commercial aviation.
Boeing 2026 Pilot & Technician Outlook
Sources · BLS · ATEC · Boeing
Research Pipeline

What we are
building next.

These reports are in development. We publish when the data supports the conclusion, not before. Subscribe to the monthly brief and you will get each one as it is released.

Compensation

South Florida A&P Compensation Snapshot

Pay bands by certificate level, experience and shift across South Florida repair stations and operators, with the premium avionics currently commands.

In development
Demand

Avionics Hiring Outlook

Why avionics is the most in-demand and least deliberately recruited specialty in maintenance, and what that is doing to time-to-fill.

In development
Competition

What Part 145 Employers Are Competing Against

Where repair stations lose technicians: airlines, corporate flight departments, manufacturing, and non-aviation trades paying comparable wages.

Research in progress
Supply

A&P School Pipeline Report

Enrollment, capacity and graduation throughput at aviation maintenance programs, and how much of that supply actually reaches repair stations.

Research in progress
Regional

South Florida Aviation Workforce Map

Repair stations, operators and training programs across the region, mapped against where maintenance demand is concentrated.

In development
Regional

Southern California Maintenance Workforce Report

The second market on our roadmap. Same structure as the South Florida work, published once the South Florida research is complete.

Planned
Sources

Cited, or we do not publish it.

  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook and occupational wage data.
  • Federal Aviation Administration certificate and repair station data.
  • ATEC Pipeline Report, for aviation maintenance school enrollment and capacity.
  • Boeing Pilot and Technician Outlook, for long-range commercial aviation demand.
  • Anonymized JetBridge intake data: employer requirements, offered compensation and placement outcomes.

Where a figure comes from our own intake, we say so and we say how large the sample is. Aggregated only, never attributed to an individual employer or technician.

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