Florida·Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations·SOC 49-3092

Best Recreational Vehicle Service Technician programs in Florida, ranked by enrollment

Diagnose, inspect, adjust, repair, or overhaul recreational vehicles including travel trailers.

1 schools in Florida run programs that feed this job, graduating 25 people a year. The job pays a median of $60,560 in Florida across about 1,040 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledRV Tech (Recreational Vehicle Technician)RV Mechanic (Recreational Vehicle Mechanic)RV Service Technician (Recreational Vehicle Service Technician)Certified RV Technician (Certified Recreational Vehicle Technician)Custom Van ConverterHitch Technician (Hitch Tech)Repair Technician (Repair Tech)Service Technician (Service Tech)
Graduates / yr
25
in Florida
Median pay · Florida
$60,560
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
1,040
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
71%
across those schools
Median net price
$21,825
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Florida that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Florida that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Florida (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Florida page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 47.0618In Florida
25
100.0%
1$37,089$11,790

Top 1 schools in Florida

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 1 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Jones Technical Institute
Jacksonville, FL Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
25Recreation Vehicle (RV) Service Technician$40,20871%$21,825

All 1 schools in Florida

Every school in Florida with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Florida that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Jones Technical InstituteJacksonvillePrivate not-for-profit251

What recreational vehicle service technicians earn in Florida

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Florida
$60,560
Mean annual
$63,200
Jobs in state
1,040
What the range looks like
10th pct$43,800Median$60,56090th pct$79,300
Versus the national median
+16.5%

U.S. median $52,000. Florida pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
0.93×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in Florida

Jacksonville, FL
$71,980median
180 jobs
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
$64,480median
150 jobs
Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
$61,160median
60 jobs
North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL
$61,400median
80 jobs
Ocala, FL
$59,860median
90 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+11.5%
Much faster than average
Openings per year
2,800
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
2,200
19,500 → 21,700
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Plus long-term on-the-job training

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians page.

How to become a Recreational Vehicle Service Technician

Job zone 2 of 5 · SVP Below 6.0
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
On-the-job training
Long-term on-the-job training

Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.

Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.

Top skills

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Related careers in Florida

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 1 majors mapped to Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 47.0618Recreation Vehicle (RV) Service Technician

Common questions

Answers for people weighing recreational vehicle service technicians programs in Florida.

What degree do you need to become a Recreational Vehicle Service Technician?+

High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Recreation Vehicle (RV) Service Technician, which awarded 25 degrees in Florida in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Recreational Vehicle Service Technician?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Technologies/Technicians. Together they graduate about 25 people a year in Florida.

How much do recreational vehicle service technicians earn in Florida?+

The median is $60,560 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 16.5% above the U.S. median of $52,000. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for recreational vehicle service technicians growing?+

BLS projects a +11.5% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, much faster than average, with roughly 2,800 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Florida?+

1 institutions in Florida reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do recreational vehicle service technicians work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records RV Tech (Recreational Vehicle Technician), RV Mechanic (Recreational Vehicle Mechanic), RV Service Technician (Recreational Vehicle Service Technician), Certified RV Technician (Certified Recreational Vehicle Technician) among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 49-3092.

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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