Compare A Biomedical Equipment Technician ↔ B Facilities Maintenance Supervisor

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Your route

3 moves · +$18,390 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Facilities Technician: license depends on the work (No state license for in-house maintenance (1305.003(a)(8)); electrical work beyond that needs a TDLR license).
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 3, to Facilities Maintenance Supervisor: license depends on the work (No Texas license for in-house maintenance: electrician (1305.003(a)(8)) and plumbing (1301.053(a)(1)) laws exempt maintenance staff who do not work for the public. Refrigerant work needs EPA 608).

Move 1 Transfer move to the side
Biomedical Equipment Technician to Facilities Technician -$11,700 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 = 0.86 (O*NET related occupation beyond the 6 drawn laterals).
- Gates: license depends on the work (No state license for in-house maintenance (1305.003(a)(8)); electrical work beyond that needs a TDLR license).
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).
Move 3 Transfer move to the side
Facilities Manager to Facilities Maintenance Supervisor -$22,670 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers as a related occupation (Supplemental); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.79 (O*NET related occupation beyond the 6 drawn laterals).
- Gates: license depends on the work (No Texas license for in-house maintenance: electrician (1305.003(a)(8)) and plumbing (1301.053(a)(1)) laws exempt maintenance staff who do not work for the public. Refrigerant work needs EPA 608).

Side by side

All First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers: Texas median $76,760, $18,390 more a year than all Medical Equipment Repairers ($58,370), every experience level.

Facilities Maintenance Supervisor: 53% work more than 40 hours a week, about 1.9 times the share for Biomedical Equipment Technician (28%).

This level's pay

A No headline record for this level

B $25.74 to $30.50/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

$58,370+$18,390$76,760

Gates on the route: Facilities Technician: license depends on the work (No state license for in-house maintenance (1305.003(a)(8)); electrical work beyond that needs a TDLR license); Facilities Maintenance Supervisor: license depends on the work (No Texas license for in-house maintenance: electrician (1305.003(a)(8)) and plumbing (1301.053(a)(1)) laws exempt maintenance staff who do not work for the public. Refrigerant work needs EPA 608).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +21.9% Texas, 780 openings a year

B +11.2% Texas, 6,510 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

28%+25 pts53%

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

2.5 / 5+0.22.6 / 5

Hazardous equipment+1.17Hazardous equipment: A 2.37, B 3.54
High places+0.86High places: A 1.57, B 2.43
Very hot or cold+0.83Very hot or cold: A 2.59, B 3.42
Outdoors, all weather+0.80Outdoors, all weather: A 2.46, B 3.26
Cramped space-0.67Cramped space: A 3.03, B 2.36

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: 10% do).

License

A No license for this job title at the agencies read on 2026-10-03 (TDLR, TSBPE, TCEQ, TCFP, TEA, TBPELS, NRC and EPA). Texas health department rules for X-ray equipment service were not checked.

B No Texas license for in-house maintenance: electrician (1305.003(a)(8)) and plumbing (1301.053(a)(1)) laws exempt maintenance staff who do not work for the public. Refrigerant work needs EPA 608.

Experience

A Most common related work experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET: 40%).

B Most common related work experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET: 41%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 6

Quality Control Analysis
Operations Monitoring
Active Learning
Systems Analysis
Complex Problem Solving
Social Perceptiveness

To build: 6

Management of Personnel Resources +1.63
Monitoring +1.12
Coordination +1.00
Negotiation +0.88
Speaking +0.87
Judgment and Decision Making +0.75

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