Compare A Sheet Metal Worker ↔ B Solar Energy Installation Manager

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Your route

2 moves · +$20,280 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Solar PV Installer: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
Move 2, to Solar Energy Installation Manager: 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
Sheet Metal Worker to Solar PV Installer -$6,000 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- Skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.88 (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
Solar PV Installer to Solar Energy Installation Manager +$26,280 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Solar Energy Installation Managers as a related occupation (Primary-Short); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.76.
- Gates checked: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).
- Skills to build: Management of Personnel Resources, Negotiation, Instructing

Side by side

All Solar Energy Installation Managers: Texas median $74,520, $20,280 more a year than all Sheet Metal Workers ($54,240), every experience level.

Solar Energy Installation Manager: 62% work more than 40 hours a week, about 2.2 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+$20,280$74,520

Gates checked: No degree, license or hours gate on these moves in O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for each job.

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +5.3% Texas, 950 openings a year

B +10.0% Texas, 8,780 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

28%+34 pts62%

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

2.9 / 5+0.43.3 / 5

Outdoors, all weather+1.91Outdoors, all weather: A 2.51, B 4.42
High places+1.69High places: A 2.22, B 3.91
Very hot or cold+1.19Very hot or cold: A 2.88, B 4.07
Climbing ladders+1.07Climbing ladders: A 1.72, B 2.79
Standing-0.92Standing: A 4.84, B 3.92

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: 6% 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 solar supervision title at TDLR; the installing company needs a TDLR Electrical Contractor license, and anyone doing the PV wiring needs a TDLR electrician license.

Experience

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

B Most common related work experience: over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (O*NET: 26%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 4

Judgment and Decision Making
Complex Problem Solving
Active Learning
Operations Monitoring

To build: 6

Persuasion +1.26
Management of Personnel Resources +1.13
Negotiation +1.00
Service Orientation +0.87
Systems Evaluation +0.75
Time Management +0.75

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Save Sheet Metal Worker to Solar Energy Installation Manager 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.