Compare A Mobile Electronics Installer ↔ B Communications Electrician Supervisor

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2 moves · +$28,030 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Fire Alarm Technician: license not checked yet.
Move 2, to Communications Electrician Supervisor: license depends on the work (Texas: power wiring needs a TDLR electrician license unless exempt: plant employees in petrochemical and oil and gas (1305.003(a)(14)), low-voltage controls (a)(12), in-house maintenance (a)(8)), experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).

Move 1 Transfer move to the side
Mobile Electronics Installer to Fire Alarm Technician +$3,540 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers as a related occupation (Primary-Long); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.84.
- Gates: license not checked yet.
Move 2 L1 step up on Low-voltage and life-safety systems
Fire Alarm Technician to Communications Electrician Supervisor +$24,490 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- Next rung on 'Low-voltage and life-safety systems' (Skilled to Lead).
- Gates: license depends on the work (Texas: power wiring needs a TDLR electrician license unless exempt: plant employees in petrochemical and oil and gas (1305.003(a)(14)), low-voltage controls (a)(12), in-house maintenance (a)(8)), experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
- Skills to build: Management of Personnel Resources, Monitoring, Negotiation

Side by side

All First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers: Texas median $76,760, $28,030 more a year than all Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles ($48,730), every experience level.

More than 40 hours a week: Communications Electrician Supervisor 53%, Mobile Electronics Installer 75%.

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

$48,730+$28,030$76,760

Gates on the route: Fire Alarm Technician: license not checked yet; Communications Electrician Supervisor: license depends on the work (Texas: power wiring needs a TDLR electrician license unless exempt: plant employees in petrochemical and oil and gas (1305.003(a)(14)), low-voltage controls (a)(12), in-house maintenance (a)(8)), experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A -4.8% Texas, 100 openings a year

B +11.2% Texas, 6,510 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

75%-22 pts53%

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

2.7 / 5-0.12.6 / 5

Cramped space-1.56Cramped space: A 3.92, B 2.36
Standing-1.08Standing: A 4.09, B 3.01
Outdoors, all weather+1.00Outdoors, all weather: A 2.26, B 3.26
High places+1.00High places: A 1.43, B 2.43
Kneeling or crawling-0.93Kneeling or crawling: A 3.25, B 2.32

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: 10% do).

License

A No license for this job at the Texas and federal agencies read on 2026-10-03; vehicle electrical work is exempt from the TDLR electrician license (1305.003(a)(1)).

B Texas: power wiring needs a TDLR electrician license unless exempt: plant employees in petrochemical and oil and gas (1305.003(a)(14)), low-voltage controls (a)(12), in-house maintenance (a)(8).

Experience

A Most common related work experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET: 52%).

B Most common related work experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET: 41%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 6

Critical Thinking
Active Listening
Operations Monitoring
Complex Problem Solving
Social Perceptiveness
Troubleshooting

To build: 6

Management of Personnel Resources +1.76
Monitoring +1.12
Judgment and Decision Making +0.87
Systems Analysis +0.87
Systems Evaluation +0.87
Coordination +0.75

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