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Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers — Career Decision Dashboard
United States
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Report generated from official BLS OEWS and O*NET data — United States.
Median annual wage
$74,330
United States, 2025
Employment
97,720
United States, 2025
Typical education
Not recorded
Job Zone 2
Skills identified
35
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Career overview
Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.
- O*NET code
- 49-9052.00
- Job zone
- 2
- Experience required
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
Typical tasks
- Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment.
- Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions.
- Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
- Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment, such as digital subscriber line modems.
- 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.
- Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduits running through trenches.
- Pull cable through ducts by hand or with winches.
- Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
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Salary analysis — United States
10th percentile
$45,310
25th percentile
$54,310
75th percentile
$95,850
90th percentile
$103,680
Most important skills
- Critical Thinking3.1
- Quality Control Analysis3.1
- Monitoring3.1
- Speaking3.1
- Judgment and Decision Making3.0
- Reading Comprehension3.0
- Coordination3.0
- Active Listening3.0
- Time Management3.0
- Installation3.0
- Operations Monitoring3.0
- Operation and Control3.0
What skills do you need?
Select the skills you already have
Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.
Skill coverage
0%
0 of 15 identified skills
Matched
0
Missing
15
Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.
Skills to develop
| Skill | Importance | Required level | Your level | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coordination | 3.0 | 3.3 | Not selected | 3.3 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.1 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Quality Control Analysis | 3.1 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Monitoring | 3.1 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Active Listening | 3.0 | 3.1 | Not selected | 3.1 |
| Troubleshooting | 3.0 | 3.1 | Not selected | 3.1 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Time Management | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Operations Monitoring | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Operation and Control | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Equipment Maintenance | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Repairing | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Speaking | 3.1 | 2.9 | Not selected | 2.9 |
| Installation | 3.0 | 2.9 | Not selected | 2.9 |
Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.
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Compare with Telecommunications Line Installers and RepairersHow salary varies by location
| Location | Median | Employment | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watertown, NY | $108,670 | 30 | 2025 |
| Barnstable Town, MA | $107,380 | 60 | 2025 |
| San Jose, CA | $107,310 | 390 | 2025 |
| Glens Falls, NY | $107,210 | 30 | 2025 |
| Springfield, MA | $105,220 | 130 | 2025 |
| RI | $103,810 | 490 | 2025 |
| Providence, RI | $103,810 | 580 | 2025 |
| Trenton, NJ | $103,650 | 130 | 2025 |
| San Francisco, CA | $103,500 | 1,240 | 2025 |
| MA | $103,410 | 2,230 | 2025 |
| Boston, MA | $103,090 | 1,730 | 2025 |
| New York, NY | $102,550 | 7,340 | 2025 |
| Atlantic City, NJ | $102,250 | 70 | 2025 |
| NJ | $102,090 | 2,540 | 2025 |
| Worcester, MA | $102,070 | 110 | 2025 |
| Pittsfield, MA | $101,860 | 40 | 2025 |
| El Centro, CA | $101,650 | 40 | 2025 |
| Salinas, CA | $100,970 | 50 | 2025 |
| NY | $100,960 | 8,530 | 2025 |
| Bridgeport, CT | $100,950 | 100 | 2025 |
Career transition paths
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Build a transition comparisonCareer and skills data: O*NET 31.0.
Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).
Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.