Telephone technician vs data technician

The differences between telephone technicians and data technicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a telephone technician has an average salary of $45,477, which is higher than the $41,834 average annual salary of a data technician.

The top three skills for a telephone technician include fiber optic, phone system and PBX. The most important skills for a data technician are data entry, java, and data management.

Telephone technician vs data technician overview

	Telephone Technician	Data Technician
Yearly salary	$45,477	$41,834
Hourly rate	$21.86	$20.11
Growth rate	8%	7%
Number of jobs	45,522	101,074
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 36%	Bachelor's Degree, 45%
Average age	45	38
Years of experience	-	12

Telephone technician vs data technician salary

Telephone technicians and data technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Telephone Technician	Data Technician
Average salary	$45,477	$41,834
Salary range	Between $34,000 And $59,000	Between $25,000 And $68,000
Highest paying City	-	Santa Clara, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Citi
Best paying industry	-	Energy

Differences between telephone technician and data technician education

There are a few differences between a telephone technician and a data technician in terms of educational background:

	Telephone Technician	Data Technician
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 36%	Bachelor's Degree, 45%
Most common major	Electrical Engineering	Business
Most common college	Inter American University of Puerto Rico Bayamon	Stanford University

Telephone technician vs data technician demographics

Here are the differences between telephone technicians' and data technicians' demographics:

	Telephone Technician	Data Technician
Average age	45	38
Gender ratio	Male, 88.2% Female, 11.8%	Male, 61.2% Female, 38.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 11.5% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 19.0% Asian, 6.4% White, 57.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.6%	Black or African American, 9.6% Unknown, 5.7% Hispanic or Latino, 16.9% Asian, 10.5% White, 56.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.0%
LGBT Percentage	6%	8%

Differences between telephone technician and data technician duties and responsibilities

Telephone technician example responsibilities.

Implement and manage UHF radio base stations, repeaters, and command network, effectively linking all regional headquarters.
Pull CAT5 cable from workstations to closets, and connect to patch panels.
Install and terminate CAT5, CAT6 and multi-pair cabling in businesses for new or retrofit data network.
Set up MDF s and IDF's to include racks and trays, terminate both copper and fiber.
Install equipment racks, ladder racks, cable management systems along with the electronic data switches and associate hardware.
Install trunks lines, T1's switches (small and large).

Data technician example responsibilities.

Manage MDF for all incoming, outbound circuits, cross connects and patches
Manage high profile government DOD datacenter relocation projects.
Manage the day-to-day operations of telecommunication services utilize by DuPont.
Manage network reliability, capacity and performance in conjunction with RF engineering establish guidelines.
Assist DTRs with migration from Unix to Linux throughout the stores.
Configure routers, switches, servers, and desktop PCs for usage on the network.

Telephone technician vs data technician skills

Common telephone technician skills

Fiber Optic, 10%
Phone System, 9%
PBX, 7%
System Installation, 5%
Telephone Lines, 5%
Avaya, 4%

Common data technician skills

Data Entry, 11%
Java, 10%
Data Management, 7%
Data Collection, 6%
Access Database, 5%
SQL, 5%

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