Technical analyzer vs senior electronics technician

The differences between technical analyzers and senior electronics technicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 6-12 months to become both a technical analyzer and a senior electronics technician. Additionally, a senior electronics technician has an average salary of $61,776, which is higher than the $48,686 average annual salary of a technical analyzer.

The top three skills for a technical analyzer include troubleshoot, gas chromatographs and analyzer systems. The most important skills for a senior electronics technician are RF, technical support, and analog.

Technical analyzer vs senior electronics technician overview

	Technical Analyzer	Senior Electronics Technician
Yearly salary	$48,686	$61,776
Hourly rate	$23.41	$29.70
Growth rate	-	-
Number of jobs	67,949	68,281
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 68%	Associate Degree, 58%
Average age	50	50
Years of experience	12	12

Technical analyzer vs senior electronics technician salary

Technical analyzers and senior electronics technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Technical Analyzer	Senior Electronics Technician
Average salary	$48,686	$61,776
Salary range	Between $34,000 And $67,000	Between $44,000 And $85,000
Highest paying City	-	Pleasanton, CA
Highest paying state	-	Hawaii
Best paying company	-	Halliburton
Best paying industry	-	Energy

Differences between technical analyzer and senior electronics technician education

There are a few differences between a technical analyzer and a senior electronics technician in terms of educational background:

	Technical Analyzer	Senior Electronics Technician
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 68%	Associate Degree, 58%
Most common major	Music	Electrical Engineering
Most common college	Northwestern University	Northeastern University

Technical analyzer vs senior electronics technician demographics

Here are the differences between technical analyzers' and senior electronics technicians' demographics:

	Technical Analyzer	Senior Electronics Technician
Average age	50	50
Gender ratio	Male, 86.1% Female, 13.9%	Male, 94.6% Female, 5.4%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 6.3% Unknown, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 10.4% Asian, 8.0% White, 70.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%	Black or African American, 6.3% Unknown, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 10.4% Asian, 8.0% White, 70.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%
LGBT Percentage	8%	8%

Differences between technical analyzer and senior electronics technician duties and responsibilities

Technical analyzer example responsibilities.

Manage, support, and analyze efforts relate to international and domestic climate change-relate issues.
Work as a team to troubleshoot and maintain a wide variety of analyzers and relate sample systems.
Inspect, calibrate, and perform routine maintenance on transmitters in chemical manufacturing units
Work on plc esd (emergency shutdown) systems and instrumentation.
Shop construction of new analyzer houses containing GCs, CEMS packages, O2 analyzers, etc.
Experience working with: Ametek, ABB, Seimens, Servomex, HACH, Teledyne and other brands of analyzers.

Senior electronics technician example responsibilities.

Manage and ensure preventative maintenance, safety, and OSHA compliance programs are meet.
Analyze, and troubleshoot analog, digital, audio, and RF circuits to component level in telephone circuit boards.
Work to ensure compliance with all OSHA, ISO, cGMP and FDA standards.
Experience using oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers to measure and interpret transmitter system operating parameters.
Perform alignments using network analyzers, scalar analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
Train on ISO and IPC.

Technical analyzer vs senior electronics technician skills

Common technical analyzer skills

Troubleshoot, 27%
Gas Chromatographs, 18%
Analyzer Systems, 14%
O2, 10%
PLC, 6%
RF, 6%

Common senior electronics technician skills

RF, 9%
Technical Support, 5%
Analog, 5%
Ac, 4%
Dc, 4%
Oscilloscopes, 4%

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