Electronic Home Entertainment Equipment Repairers

Nature of the Work
Employment
Job Outlook

(D.O.T. 720.281, 729.281-010, 730.281-018, 8 23.361-010, and 828.261-010)

• Nature of the Work

  Electronic home entertainment equipment repairers, also called service technicians, repairaudio systems, televisions, , disc players, recorders, public address systems, video cameras, video games, home security systems, microwave ovens, and electronic organs. Some repairers specialize in one kind of equipment; others repair many types.
  
  They replace faulty parts or make adjustments, such as focusing and converging the picture of a television set, orsetting up the balance of a surround sound audio system. They may also make recordings of test patterns to detect problems in an 8mmvideo camera. Some install and repair automobilesound systems.

• Employment

  Electronic home entertainment equipment repairers held about 33,000 jobs in 1996. Most repairers work in electronic repair shops and service centers, or in stores that sell and service electronic home entertainment products. Employment is distributed in much the same way as the population. About 1out of 7 electronic home entertainment equipment repairers was self employed.

• Job Outlook

  Employment of electronic home entertainment equipment repairers is expected to decline through the year 2006. Improvements in reliability and ease of servicing should reduce service requirements even though the amount of equipment in use is expected to increase. Also, some of the home entertainment equipment is cheap enough to replace rather than repair. Nevertheless, opportunities should be good, due to the need to replace the many electronic home entertainment equipment repairers who transfer to higher paying occupations requiring a knowledge of electronics, such as computer and office machine repairer.

  (See the introductory part of this section for information on working conditions, training requirements, earnings, and sources of additional information.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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