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Vast Technician Salary

Vast's 12 open roles for technicians post a median $83.1k/yr, typically $78.3k–$120k/yr, from 12 distinct pay figures, read from its own job board every hour.

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Against other pay

Every Vast role
median $141k/yr
Vast's technicians: 41% below it
Technicians at every space company
median $73.8k/yr
Vast: 13% above it
All US aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians, May 2025
median $82.9k/yr
Vast's postings: level with it
Highest posted top
$133k/yr
Senior Welder and Fabrication 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.

Vast technician pay by level

Level the title namesOpen rolesMedianTypical pay
Level II1Too few figures
Level III1Too few figures
Senior2Too few figures
Title names no level8$83k/yr$74.2k–$119k/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 Vast hires technicians

  • Long Beach, CA9 roles, median $83.2k/yr
  • Mojave, CA2 roles
  • Hawthorne, CA1 role

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 12:02 UTC

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Questions about Vast pay for technicians

How much does Vast pay technicians?

Vast's open roles for technicians post a median $83.1k/yr, typically $78.3k–$120k/yr, from 12 distinct pay figures in 12 of its 12 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 $133k/yr, for Senior Welder and Fabrication Technician.

Does Vast pay technicians more than other space companies?

Vast's median, $83.1k/yr, is 13% above the $73.8k/yr median of the 1,100 open roles for technicians at every space company we read (Vast's among them).

Do technicians earn more than other roles at Vast?

Vast's roles for technicians post a median $83.1k/yr, 41% below the $141k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (Vast salaries compares every kind of work).

How does Vast'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); Vast's posted median, $83.1k/yr, is level with 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 Vast hire technicians?

Its open roles for technicians are in Long Beach, CA (9), Mojave, CA (2) and Hawthorne, CA (1).