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Employment Percentage
-15.52833714
SOC ID
49-9052
SOC Title
Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
ONET ID
49-9052.00
ONET Concat ID
49905200
Median Salary
60268.11
Ed Level High School
72.690002
Ed Level Certificate
14.05
Ed Level Some College
12.37
Ed Level Associates
0.89
Ed Level Bachelors
0
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a high school diploma or less
Career Description
Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.
Core Tasks
  • Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment.
  • Travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories.
  • Measure signal strength at utility poles, using electronic test equipment.
  • Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions.
  • Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment.
  • Access specific areas to string lines, or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances, using bucket trucks, climbing poles or ladders, or entering tunnels, trenches, or crawl spaces.
  • String cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches, and pull lines to proper tension.
  • Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
  • Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
  • Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduits running through trenches.
  • Pull cable through ducts by hand or with winches.
  • Dig trenches for underground wires or cables.
Start Annual Earnings
35800.34
Top Annual Earnings
106446.07
EMSI Career Title Slug
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