Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Also called: Custom Home Installer, Delivery Crew Worker, House Hauler, House Trailer Servicer, Mobile Home Installer, Mobile Home Laborer, Mobile Home Mechanic, Mobile Home Servicer
Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.
What manufactured building and mobile home installers do
Typical tasks
- Move and set up mobile homes or prefabricated buildings on owners' lots or at mobile home parks.
- Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers.
- Repair leaks in plumbing or gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe.
- Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of plumbing fixtures.
- List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, and diagrams.
- Install, repair, and replace units, fixtures, appliances, and other items and systems in mobile and modular homes, prefabricated buildings, or travel trailers, using hand tools or power tools.
- Inspect, examine, and test the operation of parts or systems to evaluate operating condition and to determine if repairs are needed.
- Confer with customers or read work orders to determine the nature and extent of damage to units.
- Remove damaged exterior panels, repair and replace structural frame members, and seal leaks, using hand tools.
- Open and close doors, windows, and drawers to test their operation, trimming edges to fit, using jackplanes or drawknives.
- Locate and repair frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeters, soldering irons, tape, and hand tools.
- Reset hardware, using chisels, mallets, and screwdrivers.
Typical path into the job (BLS)
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers salary
The median annual wage for manufactured building and mobile home installers is $45,990 (BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025–35, national). The lowest 10 percent earn less than $27,120 and the highest 10 percent earn more than $60,810. The mean annual wage is $45,410.
The mean hourly wage of $21.00 is 2.9× the federal minimum wage of $7.25. State minimums are higher in most large states. Minimum wage by state →
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Pay by percentile
Annual wage percentiles from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). Percentiles are a good proxy for pay by experience.
Projected pay for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers (3, 5 and 10 years)est.
Today $45,990 → in 3 years $50,700 → in 5 years $54,100 → in 10 years $63,700 (10-year range $54,800–$74,000). The model assumes pay growth of +3.3% per year.
What drives the annual growth rate
Projected pay = current pay × (1 + annual growth)^years. The annual growth rate starts from a base wage-growth rate and adds or subtracts labor demand (BLS projected employment growth), wage momentum and AI replacement risk for each occupation. Projections are not guarantees. How it is calculated →
Outlook score for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Each component is a percentile rank among all occupations in the same country (0–100). Weights: labor demand 25, wage momentum / openings 15, pay level 15, AI resistance 25, aging workforce 10 (Japan only), entry barrier 10.
Will AI replace Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers? AI replacement risk
How AI is changing this job
A written analysis for this occupation is being prepared.
AI replacement risk compares the parts of a job that are easy to hand to AI or software (processing information, documentation, repetitive computer work) with the parts that are hard to automate (physical work, working closely with people, judgment in unpredictable settings), using O*NET work activities, work context, skills and knowledge. The result is a relative position among all occupations in the country, scaled to 0–100%. Methodology →
Labor demand for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Employment projections are from the BLS Employment Projections program (2025–35). Annual openings include both new jobs and replacement of workers who leave the occupation.
Skills, education and requirements for Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Key skills
O*NET skill level ratings (0–7).
Key knowledge areas
What the work involves
Important abilities
Education of workers
Training before entry
Related work experience
Job Zone 2 — some preparation needed (O*NET)
Difficulty of entry: ★☆☆☆☆ Easy to enter (from education, training, experience and Job Zone)
How to become manufactured building and mobile home installers
A step-by-step guide for this occupation is being prepared. The education, training and experience data above show the typical path.
Career path and how to earn more as manufactured building and mobile home installers
Career-path guidance is being prepared. Pay by percentile is shown in the Pay section.