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title: "Audiovisual Equipment Installer and Repairer"
description: "Install, repair, or adjust audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic entertainment equipment in homes…"
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# Audiovisual Equipment Installer and Repairer

**Category:** Installation, Maintenance, and Repair · **SOC code:** 49-2097 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 49-2097.00

Install, repair, or adjust audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic entertainment equipment in homes or other venues. May perform routine maintenance.

Also advertised as: A/V Installation Tech (Audio Visual Installation Technician); A/V Installer (Audio Visual Installer); Electronic Tech (Electronic Technician); Field Service Tech (Field Service Technician); Home Theater Installer; Installer; Satellite Installer; TV Analyzer (Television Analyzer).

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $52,600 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $25.29/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $36,760 to $84,190, with the middle half between $44,490 and $67,300
- **Total US employment:** 19,780
- **Typical entry education:** Certificate
- **Preparation required:** Some preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +4.8% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 2,200 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 53/100 — 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 19,780 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $36,760 |
| 25th | $44,490 |
| 50th (median) | $52,600 |
| 75th | $67,300 |
| 90th | $84,190 |
| Mean (average) | $57,930 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CT | $74,890 | $72,281 | Not published by BLS |
| WA | $70,720 | $66,085 | 350 |
| DE | $69,990 | $70,125 | Not published by BLS |
| MD | $65,160 | $62,081 | 200 |
| IA | $64,390 | $73,369 | Not published by BLS |
| IL | $62,870 | $62,896 | 530 |
| NH | $62,810 | $60,299 | Not published by BLS |
| CA | $62,390 | $56,349 | 2,590 |
| NY | $62,380 | $57,802 | 870 |
| MT | $60,900 | $64,346 | 60 |
| OR | $59,890 | $57,943 | 130 |
| CO | $57,680 | $55,972 | 550 |
| DC | $57,620 | $52,429 | Not published by BLS |
| ID | $56,690 | $59,365 | 240 |
| VA | $56,310 | $55,695 | 370 |

31 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 46 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/audiovisual-equipment-installer-and-repairer/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/audiovisual-equipment-installer-and-repairer.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 22,400 in the 2025–2035 base year to 23,400 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 1,100 jobs, or +4.8%. Faster than average: 4.8% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 2,200 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 |
| --- | --- |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 38.4% |
| Some College Courses | 27.6% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 14.4% |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 12.2% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 5.2% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 2.3% |

## What the work involves

- Instruct customers on the safe and proper use of equipment.
- Confer with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs.
- Make service calls to repair units in customers' homes, or return units to shops for major repairs.
- Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.
- Read and interpret electronic circuit diagrams, function block diagrams, specifications, engineering drawings, and service manuals.
- Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.
- Tune or adjust equipment and instruments to obtain optimum visual or auditory reception, according to specifications, manuals, and drawings.
- Disassemble entertainment equipment and repair or replace loose, worn, or defective components and wiring, using hand tools and soldering irons.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Speaking — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.6 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.

- Troubleshooting — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Repairing — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Quality Control Analysis — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Installation — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Equipment Maintenance — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operations Monitoring — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Computers and Electronics — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Telecommunications — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mechanical — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Engineering and Technology — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Finger Dexterity — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Visualization — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.3 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).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| R — Realistic | 6.85 |
| C — Conventional | 4.61 |
| I — Investigative | 2.62 |
| A — Artistic | 1.66 |
| S — Social | 1.64 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.12 |

### 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 | 89.0 |
| ISTP | 77.2 |
| ISFJ | 75.5 |
| ESTJ | 70.7 |
| INTJ | 66.6 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [Telecommunications Equipment Installer and Repairer, Except Line Installers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/telecommunications-equipment-installer-and-repairer) — median $63,890
- [Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installer and Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/radio-cellular-and-tower-equipment-installer-and-repairer) — median $63,520
- [Telecommunications Line Installer and Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/telecommunications-line-installer-and-repairer) — median $74,330
- [Electrical and Electronics Repairer, Commercial and Industrial Equipment](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronics-repairer-commercial-and-industrial-equipment) — median $74,090
- [Electronic Equipment Installer and Repairer, Motor Vehicles](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electronic-equipment-installer-and-repairer-motor-vehicles) — median $48,420
- [Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-automated-teller-and-office-machine-repairer) — median $47,810
- [Audio and Video Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/audio-and-video-technician) — median $58,100
- [Electrical and Electronics Installer and Repairer, Transportation Equipment](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronics-installer-and-repairer-transportation-equipment) — median $84,890
- [Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/camera-and-photographic-equipment-repairer) — median $52,720
- [Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-and-fire-alarm-systems-installer) — median $60,070

## 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/
- **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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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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