Career
Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers
Install sound and video systems.
$52,600
Median pay
+4.8%
Job growth, 2025–35
2,200
Openings a year
Postsecondary nondegree award
Typical education
Under 2 years
Typical time after high school
Here's what you actually need to know.
The work
What people in this job do
- Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.
- Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes.
- Confer with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs.
- Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.
- Instruct customers on the safe and proper use of equipment.
The outlook
How the forecast changed this year
The deeper question
What kind of person does this path ask you to become?
What this work centers on
O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.
The work
Do you want most of your days spent on objects & tools, then information & systems?
Responsibility
Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?
“Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.”
Development
What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?
Troubleshooting, Quality Control Analysis, Repairing, Installation.
Trade-offs
What does it ask of you in exchange?
Under 2 years of education after high school (postsecondary nondegree award), for a median of $52,600 a year and 2,200 openings nationally each year.
Paths in
Degrees that lead here
- Communications Systems Installation and Repair Technology/TechnicianCIP 47.0103
Paths across
Careers that use similar skills
- Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers$63,890 · -3.3%
- Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers$63,520 · +1.2%
- Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers$74,330 · -3.4%
- Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment$74,090 · +0.3%
- Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles$48,420 · -14.5%
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Sources
- BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.