Audio and video equipment technicians are about average in terms of happiness.
At CareerExplorer, we conduct an ongoing survey with millions of people and ask them how satisfied they are with their careers. As it turns out, audio and video equipment technicians rate their career happiness 3.2 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 45% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy audio and video equipment technicians are to similar careers in the industry. Take a look at the results below:
Salaries and satisfaction ratings in similar careers
| Career | Satisfaction | Avg Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Network administrator | 3.2 | $47k |
| IT security consultant | 3.2 | $60k |
| Security engineer | 3.2 | $74k |
| Desktop publisher | 3.2 | $45k |
| Software engineer | 3.2 | $93k |
| Audio and video equipment technician | 3.2 | $46k |
| IT manager | 3.1 | $79k |
| Electrical engineer | 3.1 | $97k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are audio and video equipment technicians happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do audio and video equipment technicians find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as audio and video equipment technicians?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are audio and video equipment technician’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are audio and video equipment technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Are audio and video equipment technicians happy with their salary?
Audio and video equipment technicians rated their satisfaction with their salaries 3.1/5. Few are explicitly unhappy with their salaries, with most audio and video equipment technicians having generally positive views of their salary.
We asked audio and video equipment technicians how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
264 audio and video equipment technicians
14% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their compensation 5 stars
25% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their compensation 4 stars
29% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their compensation 3 stars
21% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their compensation 2 stars
11% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their compensation 1 stars
Do audio and video equipment technicians find their jobs meaningful?
On average, audio and video equipment technicians rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.7/5. The majority of audio and video equipment technicians struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.
We asked audio and video equipment technicians how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.7 out of 5 stars
266 audio and video equipment technicians
11% of audio and video equipment technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
16% of audio and video equipment technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
22% of audio and video equipment technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
30% of audio and video equipment technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
20% of audio and video equipment technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as audio and video equipment technicians?
Audio and video equipment technicians rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.9/5. The majority of audio and video equipment technicians find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked audio and video equipment technicians how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.9 out of 5 stars
301 audio and video equipment technicians
31% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their career fit 5 stars
43% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their career fit 4 stars
18% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their career fit 3 stars
7% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their career fit 2 stars
1% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is an audio and video equipment technician’s work environment?
As a whole, audio and video equipment technicians rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.6/5. A solid majority of audio and video equipment technicians enjoy their work environment, probably contributing to overall higher satisfaction with working as an audio and video equipment technician.
We asked audio and video equipment technicians how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.6 out of 5 stars
300 audio and video equipment technicians
19% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their work environment 5 stars
40% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their work environment 4 stars
24% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their work environment 3 stars
13% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their work environment 2 stars
4% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their work environment 1 stars
Are audio and video equipment technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Former audio and video equipment technicians on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.1/5. Most audio and video equipment technicians are satisfied with how well their abilities are skills are made of use.
We asked audio and video equipment technicians how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
300 audio and video equipment technicians
13% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
24% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
29% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
24% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
10% of audio and video equipment technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars