Compare A Sheet Metal Worker ↔ B Electrical Superintendent

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

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Ironworker: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
Move 2, to Weatherization Installer: license not checked yet.
Move 3, to Electrical Superintendent: license depends on the work (No license for this job title at TDLR; the employer needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license with a Master Electrician of record. Doing electrical work yourself needs your own TDLR license).

Move 1 Transfer move to the side
Sheet Metal Worker to Ironworker
- O*NET lists Structural Iron and Steel Workers as a related occupation (Primary-Short); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.85.
- Gates checked: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
- Skills to build: Operation and Control, Operations Monitoring
Move 2 Transfer move to the side
Ironworker to Weatherization Installer
- Skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.85 (one of the 3 most similar occupations, r >= 0.6).
- Gates: license not checked yet.
Move 3 Transfer move to the side
Weatherization Installer to Electrical Superintendent
- O*NET lists Construction Managers as a related occupation (Supplemental); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.71 (O*NET related occupation beyond the 6 drawn laterals).
- Gates: license depends on the work (No license for this job title at TDLR; the employer needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license with a Master Electrician of record. Doing electrical work yourself needs your own TDLR license).

Side by side

All Construction Managers: Texas median $101,470, $47,230 more a year than all Sheet Metal Workers ($54,240), every experience level.

Electrical Superintendent: 74% work more than 40 hours a week, about 2.6 times the share for Sheet Metal Worker (28%).

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

$54,240+$47,230$101,470

Gates on the route: Weatherization Installer: license not checked yet; Electrical Superintendent: license depends on the work (No license for this job title at TDLR; the employer needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license with a Master Electrician of record. Doing electrical work yourself needs your own TDLR license).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +5.3% Texas, 950 openings a year

B +13.1% Texas, 7,330 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

28%+46 pts74%

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

2.9 / 5-0.12.8 / 5

Outdoors, all weather+1.34Outdoors, all weather: A 2.51, B 3.85
Standing-1.24Standing: A 4.84, B 3.6
Bending or twisting-1.24Bending or twisting: A 3.74, B 2.5
High places+0.88High places: A 2.22, B 3.1
Climbing ladders+0.83Climbing ladders: A 1.72, B 2.55

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: 45% do).

License

A Texas: HVAC duct work is done under a TDLR-licensed A/C contractor; helping with A/C maintenance or repair needs TDLR technician registration. Other sheet metal work: no license at agencies checked.

B No license for this job title at TDLR; the employer needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license with a Master Electrician of record. Doing electrical work yourself needs your own TDLR license.

Experience

A Most common related work experience: none (O*NET: 47%).

B Most common related work experience: over 4 years, up to and including 6 years (O*NET: 20%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 1

Instructing

To build: 6

Management of Financial Resources +2.12
Negotiation +1.76
Management of Material Resources +1.63
Management of Personnel Resources +1.50
Writing +1.50
Systems Evaluation +1.25

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