Compensation, hiring demand, entry-level readiness and pipeline supply for aviation maintenance, sourced and cited, across South Florida and Southern California.
Four pieces of work, each one answering a question the industry keeps asking and mostly answering badly. Every figure is sourced, and where a number comes from JetBridge’s own scanning the window and sample size are stated on the page.
No, and the reason matters. Under 14 CFR 145.157 the certificate requirement attaches to the person approving return to service, not to everyone in the building. The repairman certificate route requires employment first and no written test. Most of the industry does not know this, and it costs both sides.
Section 127 puts $5,250 a year tax free against a technician’s student loan, and it was made permanent in 2025. Florida reimburses up to 75% of approved training cost. A veteran in VA-approved OJT draws a housing allowance on top of your wage. Four programs, one of them expired, all stated plainly.
Environment mismatch, shift patterns, pay expectations, onboarding, supervision, stagnation and relocation. Most departures were decided by something knowable before the hire, which is why retention belongs inside recruiting rather than beside it.
The route nobody advertises, and the documentation trap that quietly destroys it. Experience recorded properly as it happens counts toward testing eligibility. Experience nobody wrote down counts for nothing, and that is the usual outcome.
These reports are in development. Each one publishes when the scanning behind it is deep enough to be worth your time, not when a calendar says so. Subscribe to the monthly brief and you will get each one as it is released.
Pay bands by certificate level, experience and shift across South Florida repair stations and operators, with the premium avionics currently commands.
Why avionics is the most in-demand and least deliberately recruited specialty in maintenance, and what that is doing to time-to-fill.
Where repair stations lose technicians: airlines, corporate flight departments, manufacturing, and non-aviation trades paying comparable wages.
Enrollment, capacity and graduation rates at aviation maintenance programs, and how much of that supply reaches repair stations.
Repair stations, operators and training programs across the region, mapped against where maintenance demand is concentrated.
The second market on our roadmap. Same structure as the South Florida work, published once the South Florida research is complete.
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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