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Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
Install, set up, rearrange, or remove switching, distribution, routing, and dialing equipment used in central offices or headends. Service or repair telephone, cable television, Internet, and other communications equipment on customers' property. May install communications equipment or communications wiring in buildings.
What a telecommunications equipment installers and repairer, except line installer does
Become a telecommunications equipment installers and repairer, except line installer
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good telecommunications equipment installers and repairer, except line installer
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $51 per hour with a typical salary of $91,900 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $33 and $56 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $33,500 and $97,000 per year.
- 58% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $46 per hour with a typical salary of $54,000 per year.
- 40.1% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Telecommunications Equipment Installers And Repairer, Except Line Installer job outlook
- There are 3,539 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 535 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 2% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 13% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.