Installation Skills and Careers

Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.

910 occupations report this skill · Category: Transferable Skills · O*NET element 2.B.3.d

Occupations reporting Installation

Importance and level are O*NET scale values. Ordered by reported importance. A skill rating does not indicate hiring outcomes.

OccupationImportanceLevelNational median wage
Bakers1.00.0$37,160
Butchers and Meat Cutters1.00.0$40,140
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers1.00.0$38,300
Slaughterers and Meat Packers1.00.0$40,130
Food Batchmakers1.00.0$42,290
Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders1.00.0$41,590
Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders1.00.0$54,430
Pourers and Casters, Metal1.00.0$51,810
Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic1.00.0$58,000
Foundry Mold and Coremakers1.00.0$48,110
Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners1.00.0$50,060
Prepress Technicians and Workers1.00.0$48,690
Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers1.00.0$34,890
Locomotive Engineers1.00.0$81,410
Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers1.00.0$37,800
Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders1.00.0$35,650
Sewers, Hand1.00.0$36,480
Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers1.00.0$41,640
Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers1.00.0$46,350
Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers1.00.0$62,750
Furniture Finishers1.00.0$44,540
Nuclear Power Reactor Operators1.00.0$122,890
Gas Plant Operators1.00.0$87,820
Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers1.00.0$96,710
Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders1.00.0$58,040
Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand1.00.0$42,660
Cutters and Trimmers, Hand1.00.0$38,020
Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders1.00.0$48,040
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers1.00.0$48,570
Dental Laboratory Technicians1.00.0$49,610
Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians1.00.0$39,460
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders1.00.0$43,220
Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers1.00.0$41,600
Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders1.00.0$43,530
Etchers and Engravers1.00.0$43,310
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers1.00.0$46,170
Potters, Manufacturing1.00.0$46,170
Helpers--Production Workers1.00.0$39,070
First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand1.00.0—
Recycling Coordinators1.00.0—
First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators1.00.0—
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers1.00.0$232,140
Commercial Pilots1.00.0$123,220
Air Traffic Controllers1.00.0$148,080
Airfield Operations Specialists1.00.0$56,850
Flight Attendants1.00.0$63,580
Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians1.00.0$35,450
Driver/Sales Workers1.00.0$38,770
Light Truck Drivers1.00.0$44,860

Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.