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Sound Engineering Technicians
Assemble and operate equipment to record, synchronize, mix, edit, or reproduce sound, including music, voices, or sound effects, for theater, video, film, television, podcasts, sporting events, and other productions.
What a sound engineering technician does
Become a sound engineering technician
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good sound engineering technician
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Talking to others.
- 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
- Average hourly rate is $48 per hour with an average salary of $99,700 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $29 and $67 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $60,900 and $138,600 per year.
Sound Engineering Technician job outlook
- There are 214 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 34 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.