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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.

Median salary (BLS)

$63,890

10th–90th percentile (BLS)

$44k – $97k

Job outlook

No separate BLS projection for this specific role

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Early-career check: graduates of the matching programs below typically earn $70,000 ten years after starting college — an early-career figure, vs. the all-experience BLS median above. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard.

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Education

Typical entry: No degree (trade/license)

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Typical progression

  1. Junior Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    Entry / Junior

    $44,240

    ~2 yrs to advance

  2. Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    Established

    $63,890

    ~3 yrs to advance

  3. Senior Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    Senior

    $80,310

Key skills

A typical day

  • •Demonstrate equipment to customers and explain its use, responding to any inquiries or complaints.
  • •Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
  • •Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.
  • •Climb poles and ladders, use truck-mounted booms, and enter areas such as manholes and cable vaults to install, maintain, or inspect equipment.
  • •Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.

Fields of study

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