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Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Average Salary:
$64,604
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Millions of paychecks are issued and large amounts of materials are purchased by the services each year. To account for military spending, exact financial records must be kept of these transactions. Finance and accounting specialists organize and keep track of financial records. They also compute payrolls and other allowances, audit accounting records, and prepare payments for military personnel.
Civil Engineering Technicians
Average Salary:
$45,634
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military builds and repairs many airstrips, docks, barracks, roads, and other projects each year. Surveying, mapping, and drafting technicians conduct land surveys, make maps, and prepare detailed plans and drawings for construction projects. Surveys and maps are also used to locate military targets and plot troop movements.
Electro-Mechanical Technicians
Average Salary:
$40,767
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
The military uses remotely piloted unmanned vehicles for a variety of purposes, such as deep sea exploration, intelligence gathering, remote surveillance, and target applications. These vehicles are used in the air, on land, and at sea in operations or missions that could be dangerous for human operators onboard the vehicle. The military requires skilled operators and technicians to maintain and control these vehicles. Personnel normally specialize by the type of vehicle they operate, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, ground vehicles, surface vehicles, and undersea vehicles.
Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
Average Salary:
Not Available
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Each military base is a small community. The health and well-being of the residents and surrounding land is a major concern of the services. Keeping military work places and living areas sanitary helps to prevent illness. Environmental health and safety specialists inspect military facilities and food supplies for the presence of disease, germs, or other conditions hazardous to health and the environment.
First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
Average Salary:
$63,166
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military's transportation system is made up of many different kinds of carriers, including ships, aircraft, trucks, and buses. Repair and maintenance schedules for each type of vehicle must be carefully planned and managed. Transportation maintenance managers direct personnel who repair and maintain the military's transportation equipment.
Avionics Technicians
Average Salary:
$40,625
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Airplanes and helicopters have complex electrical and electronic systems for communication, navigation, and radar. Instruments, lights, weapons, landing gear, sensors and many other aircraft parts are also controlled by electronics. Avionics technicians install, maintain and repair electronic and electrical systems on all types of aircraft.
Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
Average Salary:
$52,657
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Much of the military's equipment is electrically powered. Electric motors, electric tools, and medical equipment require careful maintenance and repair. Electrical products repairers maintain and repair electrical equipment. They specialize by type of equipment.
Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment
Average Salary:
$49,888
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military uses electronic instruments and equipment in many different areas, including health care, weather forecasting, and combat, to name a few. Electronics repairers maintain and repair instruments and equipment, such as computers, communications equipment, radar and sonar systems, precision measuring equipment, and biomedical instruments. Electronic instrument and equipment repairers normally specialize by type of equipment or instrument being repaired.
Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
Average Salary:
$47,690
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Much of the military's equipment is electrically powered. Electric motors, electric tools, and medical equipment require careful maintenance and repair. Electrical products repairers maintain and repair electrical equipment. They specialize by type of equipment.
Electronic Home Entertainment Equipment Installers and Repairers
Average Salary:
$27,445
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military uses electronic instruments and equipment in many different areas, including health care, weather forecasting, and combat, to name a few. Electronics repairers maintain and repair instruments and equipment, such as computers, communications equipment, radar and sonar systems, precision measuring equipment, and biomedical instruments. Electronic instrument and equipment repairers normally specialize by type of equipment or instrument being repaired.
Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
Average Salary:
$43,172
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Air conditioning and heating equipment is used to maintain comfortable temperatures in military buildings, airplanes, and ships. Refrigeration equipment is used to keep food cold and to keep some missile fuels at sub-zero storage temperatures. Heating and cooling mechanics install and repair air conditioning, refrigeration, and heating equipment.
Industrial Machinery Mechanics
Average Salary:
$41,024
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Air conditioning and heating equipment is used to maintain comfortable temperatures in military buildings, airplanes, and ships. Refrigeration equipment is used to keep food cold and to keep some missile fuels at sub-zero storage temperatures. Heating and cooling mechanics install and repair air conditioning, refrigeration, and heating equipment.
Medical Equipment Repairers
Average Salary:
$46,557
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Much of the military's equipment is electrically powered. Electric motors, electric tools, and medical equipment require careful maintenance and repair. Electrical products repairers maintain and repair electrical equipment. They specialize by type of equipment.
Commercial Divers
Average Salary:
$71,762
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sometimes, military tasks such as search and rescue, ship repair, construction, and patrolling must be done under water. Divers in the military perform this work. They usually specialize either as scuba divers, who work just below the surface, or as deep sea divers, who may work for long periods of time in depths up to 300 feet.
Fabric Menders, Except Garment
Average Salary:
$45,755
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Military personnel often have hazardous assignments. They depend on survival equipment to protect their lives in case of emergencies. Survival equipment specialists inspect, maintain, and repair survival equipment such as parachutes, aircraft life support equipment, and air-sea rescue equipment.
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
Average Salary:
$51,346
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sheet metal is used as a building material in many military construction projects. Ships, tanks, and aircraft are made of heavy metal armor. Welders and metal workers make and install sheet metal products, such as roofs, air ducts, gutters, and vents. They also make custom parts to repair the structural parts of ships, submarines, landing craft, buildings, and equipment.
Computer-Controlled Machine Tool Operators, Metal and Plastic
Average Salary:
$26,920
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sometimes when engines or machines break down, the parts needed to repair them are not available. In these cases, the broken parts must be repaired or new ones made. Machinists make and repair metal parts for engines and all types of machines. They operate lathes, drill presses, grinders, and other machine shop equipment.
Machinists
Average Salary:
$51,141
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sometimes when engines or machines break down, the parts needed to repair them are not available. In these cases, the broken parts must be repaired or new ones made. Machinists make and repair metal parts for engines and all types of machines. They operate lathes, drill presses, grinders, and other machine shop equipment.
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
Average Salary:
$43,842
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Sheet metal is used as a building material in many military construction projects. Ships, tanks, and aircraft are made of heavy metal armor. Welders and metal workers make and install sheet metal products, such as roofs, air ducts, gutters, and vents. They also make custom parts to repair the structural parts of ships, submarines, landing craft, buildings, and equipment.
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Average Salary:
$41,916
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Military equipment is often placed under heavy stress. An airplane's landing gear absorbs heavy runway impact. Submarine hulls withstand tremendous pressure in the ocean depths. In time, stress may cause structural weakening or damage. Non-destructive testers examine metal parts for stress damage. They use X-rays, ultrasonics, and other testing methods that do not damage (are non-destructive to) the parts tested.