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title: "Audio and Video Technician"
description: "Set up, maintain, and dismantle audio and video equipment, such as microphones, sound speakers, connecting wires and cables, sound and mixing boards…"
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/audio-and-video-technician"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Audio and Video Technician

**Category:** Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media · **SOC code:** 27-4011 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 27-4011.00

Set up, maintain, and dismantle audio and video equipment, such as microphones, sound speakers, connecting wires and cables, sound and mixing boards, video cameras, video monitors and servers, and related electronic equipment for live or recorded events, such as concerts, meetings, conventions, presentations, podcasts, news conferences, and sporting events.

Also advertised as: Audio Technician; Audio Visual Specialist (AV Specialist); AV Tech (Audio Visual Technician); Media Technician; Operations Technician; Stagehand; Video Technician.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $58,100 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $27.93/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $37,990 to $100,650, with the middle half between $46,390 and $77,560
- **Total US employment:** 70,230
- **Typical entry education:** Certificate
- **Preparation required:** Some preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +3.9% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 6,600 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 40/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 70,230 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $37,990 |
| 25th | $46,390 |
| 50th (median) | $58,100 |
| 75th | $77,560 |
| 90th | $100,650 |
| Mean (average) | $64,630 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $78,770 | $71,674 | 830 |
| NJ | $71,040 | $65,291 | 2,280 |
| MD | $70,040 | $66,731 | 1,770 |
| WA | $69,270 | $64,730 | 1,360 |
| NY | $67,600 | $62,638 | 7,990 |
| CA | $64,620 | $58,363 | 9,280 |
| RI | $64,070 | $62,642 | 150 |
| NV | $62,770 | $62,783 | 1,580 |
| CT | $62,120 | $59,956 | 820 |
| AK | $62,060 | $60,630 | 70 |
| IL | $60,740 | $60,766 | 3,020 |
| HI | $60,150 | $54,706 | 430 |
| DE | $59,700 | $59,815 | 130 |
| MI | $58,300 | $60,592 | 1,700 |
| PA | $56,890 | $58,306 | 3,080 |

35 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 50 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/audio-and-video-technician/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/audio-and-video-technician.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 87,600 in the 2025–2035 base year to 91,100 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 3,400 jobs, or +3.9%. About as fast as average: 3.9% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 6,600 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Postsecondary nondegree award (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Some preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Short-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 42.7% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 25.1% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 19.9% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 11.2% |
| Some College Courses | 1.2% |

## What the work involves

- Notify supervisors when major equipment repairs are needed.
- Perform minor repairs and routine cleaning of audio and video equipment.
- Diagnose and resolve media system problems.
- Direct and coordinate activities of assistants and other personnel during production.
- Record and edit audio material, such as movie soundtracks, using audio recording and editing equipment.
- Design layouts of audio and video equipment and perform upgrades and maintenance.
- Conduct training sessions on selection, use, and design of audio-visual materials and on operation of presentation equipment.
- Install, adjust, and operate electronic equipment to record, edit, and transmit radio and television programs, motion pictures, video conferencing, or multimedia presentations.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Monitoring — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Operations Monitoring — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operation and Control — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Computers and Electronics — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Communications and Media — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Telecommunications — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Fine Arts — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Engineering and Technology — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Near Vision — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Information Ordering — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Realistic (R), Conventional (C), Artistic (A).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| R — Realistic | 5.20 |
| C — Conventional | 4.58 |
| A — Artistic | 3.24 |
| I — Investigative | 2.74 |
| S — Social | 1.97 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.87 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 85.8 |
| ISTP | 75.8 |
| ISFJ | 73.0 |
| INTJ | 69.1 |
| ESTJ | 65.4 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Broadcast Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/broadcast-technician) — median $59,570
- [Sound Engineering Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sound-engineering-technician) — median $73,130
- [Camera Operator, Television, Video, and Film](https://nuecareer.com/careers/camera-operator-television-video-and-film) — median $74,990
- [Lighting Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lighting-technician) — median $68,060
- [Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronic-engineering-technologist-and-technician) — median $78,190
- [Audiovisual Equipment Installer and Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/audiovisual-equipment-installer-and-repairer) — median $52,600
- [Electrical and Electronics Repairer, Commercial and Industrial Equipment](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronics-repairer-commercial-and-industrial-equipment) — median $74,090
- [Robotics Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/robotics-technician) — median $73,900
- [Calibration Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/calibration-technologist-and-technician) — median $67,820
- [Motion Picture Projectionist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/motion-picture-projectionist) — median $38,270

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–2035 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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