Setting Mobile home installers work both indoors and outdoors. The work is often done in cramped quarters and involves climbing, stooping, and reaching. Work sites are often dusty, muddy, and sometimes in remote areas. Overtime is sometimes required to complete a job on time. Single-family housing construction companies, special trade contractors, and mobile home dealers are the main employers of mobile home installers and repairers.
Wages vary with training, experience and location.
Entry level wages may be lower. There were 2,090 people employed as installers and repairers of manufactured buildings, mobile homes and travel trailers in Indiana in 1998. It is estimated that between 1996 and 2006, about 31 jobs per year will need to be filled in this occupation. This number includes new jobs and jobs resulting from the replacement of current workers. This occupation should grow as fast as the average for other occupations in Indiana.