Compare A Maintenance Electrician ↔ B Facilities Director

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No pay difference shown for this route: no single published pay schedule names every stop, and the occupation medians are not like for like on every move.

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Facilities Maintenance Supervisor: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
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 Director: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).

Move 1 R1 step up on Facilities maintenance
Maintenance Electrician to Facilities Maintenance Supervisor
- Next rung on 'Facilities maintenance' (Skilled to Lead).
- Gates: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
- Skills to build: Management of Personnel Resources, Monitoring, Negotiation
Move 2 R1 step up on Facilities maintenance
Facilities Maintenance Supervisor to Facilities Manager
- Next rung on 'Facilities maintenance' (Lead to Senior). O*NET lists Facilities Managers as a related occupation (Supplemental).
- Gates checked: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
- Skills to build: Social Perceptiveness
Move 3 R1 step up on Facilities maintenance
Facilities Manager to Facilities Director
- Next rung on 'Facilities maintenance' (Senior to Top).
- 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, $40,860 more a year than all Electricians ($58,570), every experience level.

More than 40 hours a week: Facilities Director 48%, Maintenance Electrician 35%.

This level's pay

A $26.61 to $31.87/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

$58,570+$40,860$99,430

Gates on the route: Facilities Maintenance Supervisor: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +14.4% Texas, 8,100 openings a year

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

Over 40 h a week

35%+13 pts48%

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

4.1 / 5-1.92.2 / 5

Bending or twisting-2.60Bending or twisting: A 4.68, B 2.08
Climbing ladders-2.37Climbing ladders: A 4.2, B 1.83
Cramped space-2.32Cramped space: A 4.4, B 2.08
Keeping balance-2.19Keeping balance: A 3.85, B 1.66
Hazardous conditions-2.12Hazardous conditions: A 4.59, B 2.47

Degree

A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 1% do).

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

License

A TDLR Maintenance Electrician license, unless the work is in-house maintenance for one employer with no new construction (1305.003(a)(8)).

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: over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (O*NET: 28%).

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: 6

Judgment and Decision Making
Instructing
Writing
Active Learning
Persuasion
Learning Strategies

To build: 6

Negotiation +0.75
Social Perceptiveness +0.74
Monitoring +0.63
Reading Comprehension +0.63
Management of Personnel Resources +0.62
Coordination +0.50

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Save Maintenance Electrician to Facilities Director as your goal. Each step then shows the hours you have logged toward it, your exam practice and your license, with the one thing to do next and the 6 skills to build as a checklist. Free with an account.