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Rocket Lab Technician Salary

Rocket Lab's 53 open roles for technicians post a median $69.7k/yr, typically $59.8k–$114k/yr, from 28 distinct pay figures, read from its own job board every hour.

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Against other pay

Every Rocket Lab role
median $120k/yr
Rocket Lab's technicians: 42% below it
Technicians at every space company
median $73.8k/yr
Rocket Lab: 6% below it
All US aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians, May 2025
median $82.9k/yr
Rocket Lab's postings: 16% below it
Highest posted top
$134k/yr
Lead Test Operations Technician

Typical pay is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top. Pay is compared as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours (40 a week for 52 weeks), a weekly one at 52 weeks, a monthly one at 12 months. A posting that names only a ceiling ("up to $X") is left out of the figures.

Rocket Lab technician pay by level

Level the title namesOpen rolesMedianTypical pay
Entry, associate or level I5Too few figures
Level II12$59.4k/yr$52.5k–$72.8k/yr
Level III6$60k/yr$60k–$79.5k/yr
Senior6$86.3k/yr$84.8k–$96.9k/yr
Lead1Too few figures
Title names no level23$79k/yr$73.3k–$114k/yr

A level is read from the title, the first that applies from an internship to a director (the reading of our research on career levels and pay). A figure needs three distinct posted rates.

Where Rocket Lab hires technicians

  • New Zealand15 roles
  • Long Beach, CA10 roles, median $64k/yr
  • Middle River, MD10 roles, median $79k/yr
  • Stennis Space Center, MS7 roles
  • Silver Spring, MD6 roles, median $54k/yr
  • Canada2 roles
  • Albuquerque, NM1 role
  • Tucson, AZ1 role
  • Wallops Island, VA1 role

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Updated 1 Nov 2026, 16:02 UTC

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Questions about Rocket Lab pay for technicians

How much does Rocket Lab pay technicians?

Rocket Lab's open roles for technicians post a median $69.7k/yr, typically $59.8k–$114k/yr, from 28 distinct pay figures in 28 of its 53 postings. Typical pay here is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top. The highest posted top is $134k/yr, for Lead Test Operations Technician.

What does Rocket Lab pay technicians at each level?

By the level each title names: level II: a median $59.4k/yr (12 roles); level III: a median $60k/yr (6 roles); senior: a median $86.3k/yr (6 roles). A level is read from the title ("Engineer II", "Senior", "Lead"); titles that name none are left out of this answer.

Does Rocket Lab pay technicians more than other space companies?

Rocket Lab's median, $69.7k/yr, is 6% below the $73.8k/yr median of the 1,103 open roles for technicians at every space company we read (Rocket Lab's among them).

Do technicians earn more than other roles at Rocket Lab?

Rocket Lab's roles for technicians post a median $69.7k/yr, 42% below the $120k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (Rocket Lab salaries compares every kind of work).

How does Rocket Lab's pay for technicians compare with the national wage?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the national median wage of aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians at $82.9k/yr (May 2025); Rocket Lab's posted median, $69.7k/yr, is 16% below it. A posting states what a new hire is offered, the national figure what everyone in the occupation earns, so the two measure different people. Source: BLS wage estimates by state (OEWS, May 2025), read through O*NET OnLine, CC BY 4.0.

Where does Rocket Lab hire technicians?

Its open roles for technicians are in New Zealand (15), Long Beach, CA (10), Middle River, MD (10), Stennis Space Center, MS (7) and Silver Spring, MD (6). By place, they post a median of $64k/yr in Long Beach, CA, $79k/yr in Middle River, MD and $54k/yr in Silver Spring, MD.