They repair, install, or maintain mobile or stationary radio transmitting, broadcasting, and receiving equipment and two-way radio communications systems used in cellular telecommunications, mobile broadband, ship-to-shore, aircraft-to-ground communications, and radio equipment in service and emergency vehicles.
Median annual wage(2015): $51,660
Projected job openings (through 2024): 2,100
Work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training
They prepare detailed working diagrams of machinery and mechanical devices, including dimensions, fastening methods, and other engineering information.
They help industrial engineers implement designs to use personnel, materials, and machines in factories, stores, healthcare organizations, repair shops, and offices.
They care for patients who have trouble breathing like premature infants with undeveloped lungs or elderly patients who have diseased lungs. They also provide emergency care to patients suffering from heart attacks, drowning, or shock.
They aid work under the direction of occupational therapists in treating patients with injuries, illnesses, or disabilities through the therapeutic use of everyday activities.
Median annual wage(2015): $57,870
Projected job openings (through 2024): 23,600
Work experience: None
On-the-job training: None
14. Avionics technicians
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They install, inspect, test, adjust, or repair avionics equipment, like radar, radio, navigation, and missile-control systems in aircraft or space vehicles.
They prepare wiring diagrams, circuit-board-assembly diagrams, and layout drawings used for the manufacture, installation, or repair of electrical equipment.
Median annual wage(2015): $59,520
Projected job openings (through 2024): 5,200
Work experience: None
On-the-job training: None
12. Electrical and electronics-engineering technicians
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They help engineers design and develop computers, communications equipment, medical monitoring devices, navigational equipment, and other electrical and electronic equipment.
Median annual wage(2015): $61,130
Projected job openings (through 2024): 34,100
Work experience: None
On-the-job training: None
11. Computer-network-support specialists
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They analyze, test, troubleshoot, and evaluate existing network systems, like local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and internet systems, or a segment of a network system.
They use a scanner to create images of various areas of a patient's body. They prepare radioactive drugs and administer them to patients undergoing the scans.
Median annual wage (2015): $73,360
Projected job openings(through 2024): 4,200
Work experience: None
On-the-job training: None
3. Radiation therapists
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They check equipment, observe patients' reactions to treatment, and document sessions.
Median annual wage(2015): $80,220
Projected job openings (through 2024): 6,200
Work experience: None
On-the-job training: None
2. Nuclear technicians
A nuclear missile silo is opened for inspection by the Russian rocket forces, at a site about 70 kilometres from Saratov, November 12, 1994.
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They assist physicists, engineers, and other professionals in nuclear research and nuclear production.
Median annual wage(2015): $80,260
Projected job openings (through 2024): 2,800
Work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training
1. Air-traffic controller
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They monitor and direct the movement of aircraft. Median annual wages of air-traffic controllers are the highest of any occupation in which workers typically do not need a bachelor's degree.
Median annual wage(2015): $122,950
Projected job openings(through 2024): 7,500
Work experience: None
On-the-job training: Long-term on-the-job training
