Compare A Electrical Apprentice ↔ B Tractor Trailer Truck Driver
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No route of 4 moves or fewer from Electrical Apprentice to Tractor Trailer Truck Driver.
Why
- No ladder, side move or related occupation in the data connects these two jobs within 4 moves.
Gates for Tractor Trailer Truck Driver
- Degree Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 0% do).
- License Outside occupation (starting point); its own licensing is not assessed here.
- Experience Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed (O*NET).
Nearest job you can reach
Power Plant Operator 2 moves · closest skills to Tractor Trailer Truck Driver among the jobs you can reach (O*NET, similarity 0.99)
Side by side
Tractor Trailer Truck Driver: 80% work more than 40 hours a week, about 2.3 times the share for Electrical Apprentice (35%).
This level's pay
A $18.34 to $34.64/h Houston apprenticeship scale (IBEW 716), 2026
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
All Electricians (47-2111) at every experience level, the occupation apprentices are counted in (SOC Classification Principle 7). Mostly journeyman-level workers, so it is not apprentice pay and is never subtracted.
Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation
A +14.4% Texas, 8,100 openings a year
B +14.1% Texas, 26,650 openings a year
Over 40 h a week
Physical load our index from O*NET, 1 to 5; A B; largest differences first
4.1 / 5-1.72.5 / 5
- Climbing ladders-2.45Climbing ladders: A 4.2, B 1.75
- Standing-2.34Standing: A 4.55, B 2.21
- Hazardous conditions-2.14Hazardous conditions: A 4.59, B 2.45
- Bending or twisting-2.12Bending or twisting: A 4.68, B 2.56
- Keeping balance-2.10Keeping balance: A 3.85, B 1.75
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: 0% do).
License
A Texas: Electrical Apprentice license (TDLR) before doing any electrical work. No experience or exam; $20 online application, renewed yearly.
B Outside occupation (starting point); its own licensing is not assessed here.
Experience
A To start: no experience and no exam for the Electrical Apprentice (TDLR) license.
B Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed (O*NET).
Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5
You likely have: 6
- Monitoring
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
- Time Management
- Troubleshooting
To build: 2
- Operation and Control +0.75
- Operations Monitoring +0.63
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