Fire Alarm Technician Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

FireProtectionHires had 636 open fire alarm technician listings from 47 employers on November 5, 2026.

70 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 231 in the previous 30 days.

At least 0.5% of fire alarm 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.

The benefit fire alarm technician listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was paid time off, in 66.4% of listings, followed by 401(k) plan (66%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all fire alarm technician listings.

BLS publishes no fire alarm technician-only wage, so the figure here is for security and fire alarm systems installers (SOC 49-2098), the closest available BLS occupation, which also includes security alarm installers.

The median wage for that occupation was $60,070 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers (SOC 49-2098), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $47,820 to $73,690 a year.

Texas had the most open fire alarm technician listings on November 5, 2026, with 91 (14.3% of the national total).

Florida followed with 77 (12.1%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with fire alarm technician openings in Texas.

47 employers had open fire alarm technician listings on FireProtectionHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 60.5% of them.

11 employers (23.4%) had exactly one open fire alarm technician listing.

O*NET lists Fire Alarm Technician as a reported job title of security and fire alarm systems installers (SOC 49-2098), an occupation that also covers security alarm installers.

Employers reported 86,340 security and fire alarm systems installers on payroll in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, SOC 49-2098); BLS publishes no fire-alarm-only count.

55,920 of those installers worked in investigation and security services in May 2025 (BLS OEWS industry estimates, NAICS 561600).

BLS does not project fire alarm technicians separately; for security and fire alarm systems installers (SOC 49-2098) it projects 6.8% employment growth from 2025 to 2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, and about 8,500 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025–35).

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

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all fire alarm 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 counts fire alarm technicians in one occupation with security alarm installers, security and fire alarm systems installers (SOC 49-2098), the closest available occupation. No fire-alarm-only figure exists. OEWS covers payroll employees only.