Compare A Maintenance Electrician ↔ B Biomedical Equipment Technician

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2 moves · -$200 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Electric Motor Repairer: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
Move 2, to Biomedical Equipment Technician: license not checked yet.

Move 1 Transfer move to the side
Maintenance Electrician to Electric Motor Repairer +$1,720 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers as a related occupation (Primary-Short); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.83 (same lateral rule, started from this rung; target is the related occupation's role nearest this rung's level band).
- Gates: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
- Skills to build: Equipment Maintenance, Equipment Selection, Repairing
Move 2 Transfer move to the side
Electric Motor Repairer to Biomedical Equipment Technician -$1,920 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- Skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.89 (one of the 3 most similar occupations, r >= 0.6).
- Gates: license not checked yet.

Side by side

All Medical Equipment Repairers: Texas median $58,370, $200 less a year than all Electricians ($58,570), every experience level.

More than 40 hours a week: Biomedical Equipment Technician 28%, Maintenance Electrician 35%.

This level's pay

A $26.61 to $31.87/h City of Austin (incl. Austin Energy) pay range, 2025

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

$58,570-$200$58,370

Gates on the route: Electric Motor Repairer: experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common); Biomedical Equipment Technician: license not checked yet.

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +14.4% Texas, 8,100 openings a year

B +21.9% Texas, 780 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

35%-8 pts28%

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

4.1 / 5-1.72.5 / 5

Climbing ladders-2.40Climbing ladders: A 4.2, B 1.8
Keeping balance-2.23Keeping balance: A 3.85, B 1.62
High places-2.12High places: A 3.69, B 1.57
Bending or twisting-2.05Bending or twisting: A 4.68, B 2.63
Outdoors, all weather-1.67Outdoors, all weather: A 4.13, B 2.46

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 TDLR Maintenance Electrician license, unless the work is in-house maintenance for one employer with no new construction (1305.003(a)(8)).

B No license for this job title at the agencies read on 2026-10-03 (TDLR, TSBPE, TCEQ, TCFP, TEA, TBPELS, NRC and EPA). Texas health department rules for X-ray equipment service were not checked.

Experience

A Most common related work experience: over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (O*NET: 28%).

B Most common related work experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET: 40%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 6

Troubleshooting
Quality Control Analysis
Critical Thinking
Reading Comprehension
Active Learning
Active Listening

To build: 2

Equipment Maintenance +1.00
Repairing +0.75

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