Compare A Appliance Service Technician ↔ B Facilities Manager

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Your route

2 moves · +$50,800 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Facilities Technician: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
Move 2, to Facilities Manager: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).

Move 1 Transfer move to the side
Appliance Service Technician to Facilities Technician -$1,960 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Maintenance and Repair Workers, General as a related occupation (Supplemental); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.77 (O*NET related occupation beyond the 6 drawn laterals).
- Gates checked: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
Move 2 Transfer move to the side
Facilities Technician to Facilities Manager +$52,760 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Facilities Managers as a related occupation (Supplemental); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.50 (O*NET related occupation beyond the 6 drawn laterals).
- Gates checked: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).

Side by side

All Facilities Managers: Texas median $99,430, $50,800 more a year than all Home Appliance Repairers ($48,630), every experience level.

More than 40 hours a week: Facilities Manager 48%, Appliance Service Technician 32%.

This level's pay

A No headline record for this level

B $29.23 to $36.54/h City of Austin (incl. Austin Energy) pay range, 2025

No published schedule lists both jobs, so no level-specific difference is shown.

Occupation-wide pay all experience levels, not this level's pay; Texas median, base pay, $0 to $300k

$48,630+$50,800$99,430

Gates checked: No degree, license or hours gate on these moves in O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for each job.

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +9.5% Texas, 260 openings a year

B +13.1% Texas, 1,160 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

32%+16 pts48%

Physical load our index from O*NET, 1 to 5; A B; largest differences first

2.8 / 5-0.62.2 / 5

Cramped space-2.02Cramped space: A 4.1, B 2.08
Very hot or cold-1.59Very hot or cold: A 3.87, B 2.28
Kneeling or crawling-1.53Kneeling or crawling: A 3.45, B 1.92
Bending or twisting-1.19Bending or twisting: A 3.27, B 2.08
Outdoors, all weather-0.83Outdoors, all weather: A 3.49, B 2.66

Degree

A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 0% do).

B Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 7% do).

License

A Repairing existing appliances for a dealer or maker: no Texas electrician or plumbing license (exempt). Refrigerant work needs federal EPA 608; installing appliances needs TDLR Residential Appliance Installer.

B No license for this job title at the 8 Texas and federal licensing agencies read on 2026-10-03 (TDLR, TSBPE, TCEQ, TCFP, TEA, TBPELS, NRC and EPA).

Experience

A Most common related work experience: none (O*NET: 34%).

B Most common related work experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET: 49%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 3

Critical Thinking
Active Learning
Service Orientation

To build: 6

Instructing +1.00
Management of Personnel Resources +1.00
Learning Strategies +0.88
Coordination +0.87
Monitoring +0.87
Social Perceptiveness +0.87

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