Avionics Technicians
Avionics Technicians turn specialized knowledge, procedures, and judgment into practical decisions or services. In the U.S. BLS reference layer, this asset maps to Avionics technicians with 2024 employment of 21.4k and a 2024 median annual wage of $81,390. FermatMind treats this path as a Realistic-first career: the question is whether you can sustain diagnostic pressure, safety risk, tools, and unpredictable faults over time.
Quick decision
Start with fit and work structure before reading facts and next steps.
How to Decide Whether This Career Fits You
Career profile
Read the definition, responsibilities, and context together instead of judging by title alone.
What Does This Career Do?
Install, inspect, test, adjust, or repair avionics equipment, such as radar, radio, navigation, and missile control systems in aircraft or space vehicles. The official fact boundary for this FermatMind career asset is SOC 49-2091 and O*NET 49-2091.00. That boundary separates occupational facts from informal job titles, local market examples, and editorial interpretation. In practice, Avionics Technicians requires people to understand the work context, follow relevant standards, coordinate with stakeholders, document or communicate results, and manage the quality and risk of their decisions. FermatMind treats this role as a work-structure decision: the key question is not whether the title sounds attractive, but whether you can sustain the daily tasks, feedback loops, training requirements, and risk boundaries described in this page.
Core Responsibilities
- Test and troubleshoot instruments, components, and assemblies, using circuit testers, oscilloscopes, or voltmeters.
- Keep records of maintenance and repair work.
- Adjust, repair, or replace malfunctioning components or assemblies, using hand tools or soldering irons.
- Install electrical and electronic components, assemblies, and systems in aircraft, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering irons.
- Set up and operate ground support and test equipment to perform functional flight tests of electrical and electronic systems.
Fit map
RIASEC Fit
Realistic-primary means the work repeatedly rewards this core problem-solving and work-environment preference in Avionics Technicians.
Conventional-secondary matters because the role often requires procedures, tools, coordination, evidence, clients, users, patients, learners, or teams.
Investigative-support supports the role when decisions must be explained, delivered, documented, practiced, maintained, or coordinated.
This is a career-fit interpretation, not a destiny judgment or a guaranteed match score.
- Realistic-primary
- Conventional-secondary
- Investigative-support
Personality Fit
This is not a personality diagnosis. It is a work-style interpretation that should be cross-checked with actual tasks, credentials, workplace setting, and risk tolerance.
Avionics Technicians may fit people whose personality style supports sustained attention, feedback tolerance, and the daily work context behind the title.
Risks and change
Career Risks
- This page is for career exploration. It is not an income forecast, licensing guarantee, job-placement promise, medical/legal advice, or psychological diagnosis.
This page is for career exploration. It is not an income forecast, licensing guarantee, job-placement promise, medical/legal advice, or psychological diagnosis.
Contract and Project Risks
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Will AI Replace This Career?
5/10
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Next: verify fit with FermatMind tests
A career page can explain what the role is; assessment results help you check whether the work structure fits you over time.
Step 1
Start with career interests
Use Holland / RIASEC to check whether your interest pattern aligns with Realistic-primary.
Measure my career interestsStep 2
Then check work style
If you already have MBTI or Big Five results, use them to compare Conscientiousness helps with deadlines, documentation, safety, and follow-through..
View personality-career fitStep 3
Finish with real-world validation
- Build a factual brief - Confirm the SOC/O*NET or China occupation identity.
What Skills Does the Market Signal?
- Occupation
- Avionics Technicians
- BLS/SOC title
- Avionics technicians
- SOC code
- 49-2091
- O*NET code
- 49-2091.00
- U.S. jobs in 2024
- 21.4k
- Projected U.S. jobs in 2034
- 23.1k
- 2024–2034 change
- +1.7k
- Projected growth
- 8.2%
- Annual openings
- 1.8k
- Median annual wage, 2024
- $81,390
- Entry education
- Postsecondary nondegree award
Adjacent Career Comparison
| Mechanic vs Technician | Mechanics focus on mechanical repair; technicians may handle diagnostics, electronics, or calibration. | People who like troubleshooting |
| Repair vs Inspection | Repair restores function; inspection verifies compliance and safety. | People who prefer hands-on or audit work |
| Field service vs Shop work | Field service is variable; shop work is more controlled. | People who know their preferred environment |
FAQ
Is Avionics Technicians a good fit for my personality?
It may fit if your work style matches the role's RIASEC pattern: Realistic-primary, Conventional-secondary, Investigative-support. This is not a personality diagnosis; it is a way to test whether you can sustain the daily work environment, feedback, procedures, and responsibility of Avionics Technicians.
Will AI replace Avionics Technicians?
AI may accelerate research, records, drafting, scheduling, reporting, or data tasks, but this page does not claim the occupation will or will not be replaced. The safer question is which parts of the work require human judgment, safety responsibility, relationships, or field context.
Sources and update notes
- Last reviewed: 2026-05-03. Next review due: 2026-08-03.