Employment Percentage: 
-16.463414634146
SOC ID: 
49-3052
SOC Title: 
Motorcycle Mechanics
ONET ID: 
49-3052.00
ONET Concat ID: 
49305200
Median Salary: 
41048.71
Ed Level High School: 
12.73
Ed Level Certificate: 
81.980003
Ed Level Some College: 
0
Ed Level Associates: 
5.29
Ed Level Bachelors: 
0
Ed Level Masters: 
0
Ed Level Doctor: 
0
Typical Ed Level: 
a certificate
Description: 

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, or similar motorized vehicles.

Core Tasks: 

<ul><li>Mount, balance, change, or check condition or pressure of tires.</li><li>Listen to engines, examine vehicle frames, or confer with customers to determine nature and extent of malfunction or damage.</li><li>Repair or adjust motorcycle subassemblies, such as forks, transmissions, brakes, or drive chains, according to specifications.</li><li>Replace defective parts, using hand tools, arbor presses, flexible power presses, or power tools.</li><li>Repair or replace other parts, such as headlights, horns, handlebar controls, gasoline or oil tanks, starters, or mufflers.</li><li>Connect test panels to engines and measure generator output, ignition timing, or other engine performance indicators.</li><li>Dismantle engines and repair or replace defective parts, such as magnetos, carburetors, or generators.</li><li>Disassemble subassembly units and examine condition, movement, or alignment of parts, visually or using gauges.</li><li>Remove cylinder heads and grind valves to scrape off carbon and replace defective valves, pistons, cylinders, or rings, using hand and power tools.</li><li>Reassemble frames and reinstall engines after repairs.</li><li>Reassemble and test subassembly units.</li></ul>

Start Annual Earnings: 
24237.27
Top Annual Earnings: 
74538.52
Title Slug: 
motorcycle-mechanic