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Installation, Maintenance, and Repair

Motorcycle Mechanics

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

Also called: All Terrain Vehicle Technician (ATV Technician), Custom Bike Builder, Motorcycle Mechanic, Motorcycle Service Technician, Motorcycle Technician, Motorsports Technician

Median pay in Greater Boston
$56,360
$27.09/hr
Jobs in Greater Boston
70
Massachusetts 2024–2034
Not published
Typical U.S. entry requirement
Postsecondary nondegree award
plus Short-term on-the-job training

Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.

Pay range in Greater Boston

Yearly pay in Greater Boston by percentile
10th25thMedian75th90th
$47,700$48,940$56,360$59,050$72,360

10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.

What you’d do

  • Mount, balance, change, or check condition or pressure of tires.
  • Replace defective parts, using hand tools, arbor presses, flexible power presses, or power tools.
  • Dismantle engines and repair or replace defective parts, such as magnetos, carburetors, or generators.
  • Connect test panels to engines and measure generator output, ignition timing, or other engine performance indicators.
  • Listen to engines, examine vehicle frames, or confer with customers to determine nature and extent of malfunction or damage.
  • Repair or replace other parts, such as headlights, horns, handlebar controls, gasoline or oil tanks, starters, or mufflers.

AI and this job

AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.

Lower exposure18 of 100

The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:

  • AIOE 24
  • Language-model AIOE 28
  • GPTs-are-GPTs 3

Observed AI use today: Little or none (Anthropic Economic Index)

This job has lower AI exposure, with little or no observed AI use. AI tools might help look up repair information or read engine test readings. Taking engines apart, replacing parts, and listening for problems are still hands-on work.

Likely to change

  • Reading engine test results
  • Looking up repair steps and parts

Still relies on people

  • Dismantling and repairing engines by hand
  • Talking with customers about problems

Written with AI from the data on this page. Check with a career coach before making a decision.

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Training near Boston

College and school programs in the Boston metro area that lead to this job, with 2023-24 completions (IPEDS).

1 program near Boston

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