Compare A Maintenance Mechanic ↔ B Maintenance Electrician
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2 moves · -$710 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
Gates on this route
- Move 1, to Facilities Technician: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
- Move 2, to Maintenance Electrician: 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
Maintenance Mechanic to Facilities Technician -$12,610 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- Skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.88.
- Gates: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
Move 2 R1 step up on Facilities maintenance
Facilities Technician to Maintenance Electrician +$11,900 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- Next rung on 'Facilities maintenance' (Skilled to Skilled).
- Gates checked: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
- Skills to build: Learning Strategies, Persuasion, Instructing
Side by side
All Electricians: Texas median $58,570, $710 less a year than all Maintenance Workers, Machinery ($59,280), every experience level.
More than 40 hours a week: Maintenance Electrician 35%, Maintenance Mechanic 50%.
This level's pay
A No headline record for this level
B $26.61 to $31.87/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
Gates on the route: Facilities Technician: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation
A +4.4% Texas, 820 openings a year
B +14.4% Texas, 8,100 openings a year
Over 40 h a week
Physical load our index from O*NET, 1 to 5; A B; largest differences first
3.2 / 5+1.04.1 / 5
- Keeping balance+2.01Keeping balance: A 1.84, B 3.85
- Climbing ladders+1.82Climbing ladders: A 2.38, B 4.2
- Bending or twisting+1.69Bending or twisting: A 2.99, B 4.68
- Outdoors, all weather+1.22Outdoors, all weather: A 2.91, B 4.13
- Cramped space+0.94Cramped space: A 3.46, B 4.4
Degree
A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 3% do).
B Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 1% 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 TDLR Maintenance Electrician license, unless the work is in-house maintenance for one employer with no new construction (1305.003(a)(8)).
Experience
A Most common related work experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET: 36%).
B Most common related work experience: over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (O*NET: 28%).
Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5
You likely have: 6
- Troubleshooting
- Repairing
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Quality Control Analysis
- Complex Problem Solving
- Coordination
To build: 6
- Mathematics +1.00
- Learning Strategies +0.88
- Persuasion +0.88
- Service Orientation +0.88
- Systems Analysis +0.88
- Instructing +0.75
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