Career Explorer Installation and repair
Human edge, growing
Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers
Install, repair, or adjust audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic entertainment equipment in homes or other venues. May perform routine maintenance.
More resilient than most: more resilient than 79% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is low (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it moderate), and US jobs are projected to change by +4.8% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on physical dexterity.
AI struggles with much of this work, and US employers are expected to hire more people into it than average.
- Median pay (2025)
- $52,600
- Job growth to 2035
- +4.8%
- Openings a year
- 2,200
- People doing it (2025)
- 22,400
- Usual route in
- College certificate, then short on-the-job training
Where people already use AI for this work
- Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance
- Read documents or materials to inform work processes
- Test performance of equipment or systems
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Install commercial or production equipment
- Repair electrical or electronic equipment
- Train others to use equipment or products
What the work looks like
- Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.
- Compute cost estimates for labor and materials.
- Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes.
- Confer with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs.
- Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- More of these jobs, as expected growth in consumer spending on home entertainment equipment and business spending on audiovisual equipment to facilitate hybrid and virtual work increase demand for the installation of audiovisual equipment.
- More of these jobs, as expected growth in consumer spending on home entertainment equipment increases demand for the installation of audiovisual equipment.
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Also known as: Electronic Tech (Electronic Technician), Home Theater Installer, Installer, Satellite Installer, A/V Installation Tech (Audio Visual Installation Technician), A/V Installer (Audio Visual Installer), Field Service Tech (Field Service Technician), TV Analyzer (Television Analyzer).
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.