Salary for Broadcast Technicians

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Broadcast technicians ensure the transmission of quality programmingto viewers, and follow Federal Communications Commission regulations by keeping programming logs. They achieve high program quality by aligning antennae, selecting transmission and broadcasting equipment, ensuring that equipment is in peak operable condition and ordering necessary repairs, and monitoring the clarity, strength, and reliability of station signals. They may work in radio or television industries, and with live or recorded programming. The majority of broadcast technicians have at least some college education.

A Broadcast Technician earns salaries somewhere between $21,570 to $83,620 based on levels of tenure. can get an average compensation of fourty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars on a yearly basis.

are paid at the highest average level in District of Columbia, which has average job salaries of close to about $71,230. These people are compensated the highest in Educational Services, where they can earn job pay of $57,900.

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