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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
Nuclear Engineers1.00.0$133,970
Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar1.00.0$122,930
Nanosystems Engineers1.00.0$122,930
Wind Energy Engineers1.00.0$122,930
Solar Energy Systems Engineers1.00.0$122,930
Architectural and Civil Drafters1.00.0$66,150
Mechanical Drafters1.00.0$71,550
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians1.00.0$64,950
Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians1.00.0$59,920
Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians1.00.0$66,120
Non-Destructive Testing Specialists1.00.0$78,350
Animal Scientists1.00.0$68,940
Food Scientists and Technologists1.00.0$88,720
Soil and Plant Scientists1.00.0$78,850
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary1.00.0$109,270
Microbiologists1.00.0$87,990
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists1.00.0$76,780
Bioinformatics Scientists1.00.0$98,920
Molecular and Cellular Biologists1.00.0$98,920
Geneticists1.00.0$98,920
Biologists1.00.0$98,920
Range Managers1.00.0$73,010
Park Naturalists1.00.0$73,010
Foresters1.00.0$76,400
Epidemiologists1.00.0$87,220
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists1.00.0$103,410
Astronomers1.00.0$128,820
Physicists1.00.0$172,250
Atmospheric and Space Scientists1.00.0$99,070
Chemists1.00.0$91,240
Materials Scientists1.00.0$117,790
Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health1.00.0$82,220
Climate Change Policy Analysts1.00.0$82,220
Environmental Restoration Planners1.00.0$82,220
Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers1.00.0$101,920
Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists1.00.0$122,570
Economists1.00.0$124,720
Environmental Economists1.00.0$124,720
Survey Researchers1.00.0$69,460
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists1.00.0$193,950
Clinical and Counseling Psychologists1.00.0$100,580
School Psychologists1.00.0$95,990
Neuropsychologists1.00.0$110,840
Clinical Neuropsychologists1.00.0$110,840
Sociologists1.00.0$106,030
Urban and Regional Planners1.00.0$89,320
Anthropologists and Archeologists1.00.0$70,770
Geographers1.00.0$102,040
Historians1.00.0$76,750
Political Scientists1.00.0$142,080

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