Compare A Facilities Maintenance Supervisor ↔ B Biomedical Equipment Technician

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No pay difference shown for this route: wind Site Manager: OEWS pay for an 'All Other' group; not specific to this occupation.

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Wind Site Manager: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
Move 2, to Wind Turbine Technician: license depends on the work (Texas: no electrician license for work on equipment controlled by a power generation company (1305.003(a)(5)); the same electrical work for a contractor needs a TDLR license).
Move 3, to Biomedical Equipment Technician: license not checked yet.

Move 1 Transfer move to the side
Facilities Maintenance Supervisor to Wind Site Manager
- Skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.83 (one of the 3 most similar occupations, r >= 0.6).
- 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
Wind Site Manager to Wind Turbine Technician
- O*NET lists Wind Turbine Service Technicians as a related occupation (Primary-Short); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.65.
- Gates: license depends on the work (Texas: no electrician license for work on equipment controlled by a power generation company (1305.003(a)(5)); the same electrical work for a contractor needs a TDLR license).
- Skills to build: Repairing, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Move 3 Transfer move to the side
Wind Turbine Technician to Biomedical Equipment Technician
- Skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.86 (one of the 3 most similar occupations, r >= 0.6).
- Gates: license not checked yet.

Side by side

All Medical Equipment Repairers: Texas median $58,370, $18,390 less a year than all First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers ($76,760), 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 $25.74 to $30.50/h City of Austin (incl. Austin Energy) pay range, 2025

B No headline record for this level

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

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

Gates on the route: Wind Turbine Technician: license depends on the work (Texas: no electrician license for work on equipment controlled by a power generation company (1305.003(a)(5)); the same electrical work for a contractor needs a TDLR license); Biomedical Equipment Technician: license not checked yet.

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

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

B +21.9% Texas, 780 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

53%-25 pts28%

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

2.6 / 5-0.22.5 / 5

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

Degree

A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 10% do).

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

License

A 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.

B 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.

Experience

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

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

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 6

Operations Monitoring
Quality Control Analysis
Critical Thinking
Reading Comprehension
Active Learning
Active Listening

To build: 3

Repairing +1.37
Equipment Maintenance +1.12
Troubleshooting +0.76

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