Restoration Technician Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

RestorationHires had 1,389 open restoration technician listings from 90 employers on November 5, 2026.

52 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 1,278 in the previous 30 days.

At least 0.7% of restoration technician listings were part-time on November 5, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

To browse the openings themselves, see all restoration technician listings.

Employers hiring restoration technicians on RestorationHires advertise a median of $21.25 an hour across 64 employers on November 5, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

California had the most open restoration technician listings on November 5, 2026, with 141 (10.2% of the national total).

Florida followed with 102 (7.3%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with restoration technician openings in California.

90 employers had open restoration technician listings on RestorationHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 69.8% of them.

49 employers (54.4%) had exactly one open restoration technician listing.

The largest single employer, SERVPRO, posted 33.6% of all restoration technician listings, so this sample leans toward large employers.

BLS has no restoration technician occupation in its May 2025 wage survey, and the nearest groups, such as hazardous materials removal workers, mostly count other work, so this page shows no BLS wage for restoration technicians (BLS OEWS).

The IICRC, the non-profit body that certifies restoration technicians, says it has more than 49,000 active Certified Technicians and more than 6,500 Certified Firms worldwide, a global count rather than a U.S. one (IICRC, accessed October 2026).

The current ANSI/IICRC S500 standard for professional water damage restoration is the Fifth Edition, published in 2021, and IICRC says a consensus body has begun revising it (IICRC, accessed October 2026).

ANSI/IICRC S700, the first IICRC standard for professional fire and smoke damage restoration, was published as a First Edition in 2025 (IICRC, accessed October 2026).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid restoration technician listing on RestorationHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all restoration technician jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no restoration technician occupation, and the codes it uses for nearby work (hazardous materials removal workers, construction helpers, building cleaning workers) each count other jobs, so this page shows no BLS figure for the role. Fire restoration technician listings are counted with this role.