Compare A Solar Energy Installation Manager ↔ B Lighting Technician

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Your route

2 moves · -$21,370 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Solar PV Installer: experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET, most common).
Move 2, to Lighting Technician: 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
Solar Energy Installation Manager to Solar PV Installer -$26,280 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Solar Photovoltaic Installers as a related occupation (Primary-Short); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.76.
- Gates: experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET, most common).
- Skills to build: Installation, Troubleshooting
Move 2 Transfer move to the side
Solar PV Installer to Lighting Technician +$4,910 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Lighting Technicians as a related occupation (Primary-Short) (O*NET related occupation beyond the 6 drawn laterals).
- Gates checked: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).

Side by side

All Lighting Technicians: Texas median $53,150, $21,370 less a year than all Solar Energy Installation Managers ($74,520), every experience level.

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

$74,520-$21,370$53,150

Gates on the route: Solar PV Installer: experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET, most common).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

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

B +2.2% Texas, 20 openings a year

Degree

A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 6% do).

B Degree data UNAVAILABLE in O*NET.

License

A 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.

B No license for this job title at the 8 Texas and federal licensing agencies read on 2026-10-03 (TDLR, TSBPE, TCEQ, TCFP, TEA, TBPELS, NRC and EPA).

Experience

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

B Experience data UNAVAILABLE in O*NET.

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 0

To build: 0

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