Compare A Electrical Foreman ↔ B Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor)

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1 move · +$28,710 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor): 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).

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Electrical Foreman to Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor) +$28,710 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists General and Operations Managers as a related occupation (Supplemental); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.79.
- 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).
- Skills to build: Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Social Perceptiveness

Side by side

All General and Operations Managers: Texas median $103,230, $28,710 more a year than all First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers ($74,520), every experience level.

More than 40 hours a week: Operations Manager (Electrical Contractor) 70%, Electrical Foreman 63%.

This level's pay

A $42.79/h Houston union minimum (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

$74,520+$28,710$103,230

Gates on the route: 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 +10.0% Texas, 8,780 openings a year

B +14.5% Texas, 43,030 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

63%+7 pts70%

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

3.0 / 5-1.21.8 / 5

Hazardous equipment-2.82Hazardous equipment: A 4.18, B 1.36
Very hot or cold-1.88Very hot or cold: A 4.21, B 2.33
Hazardous conditions-1.61Hazardous conditions: A 2.95, B 1.34
High places-1.53High places: A 2.84, B 1.31
Outdoors, all weather-1.50Outdoors, all weather: A 4.43, B 2.93

Degree

A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 10% do).

B Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 28% do).

License

A Usually holds the TDLR Journeyman Electrician license from the previous rung; TDLR has no separate foreman license (license list 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: over 10 years (O*NET: 30%).

B Most common related work experience: over 4 years, up to and including 6 years (O*NET: 24%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 6

Active Listening
Speaking
Coordination
Management of Personnel Resources
Time Management
Systems Analysis

To build: 6

Management of Financial Resources +1.00
Management of Material Resources +1.00
Social Perceptiveness +0.63
Active Learning +0.62
Monitoring +0.62
Persuasion +0.62

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