Audio visual technicians are about average in terms of happiness.
At CareerExplorer, we conduct an ongoing survey with millions of people and ask them how satisfied they are with their careers. As it turns out, audio visual technicians rate their career happiness 3.2 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 45% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy audio visual technicians are to similar careers in the industry. Take a look at the results below:
Salaries and satisfaction ratings in similar careers
| Career | Satisfaction | Avg Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Network administrator | 3.2 | $65k |
| IT security consultant | 3.2 | $60k |
| Security engineer | 3.2 | $74k |
| Desktop publisher | 3.2 | $44k |
| Software engineer | 3.2 | $123k |
| Audio visual technician | 3.2 | $26k |
| IT manager | 3.1 | $100k |
| Electrical engineer | 3.1 | $69k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are audio visual technicians happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do audio visual technicians find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as audio visual technicians?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are audio visual technician’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are audio visual technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Are audio visual technicians happy with their salary?
Audio visual technicians rated their satisfaction with their salaries 3.1/5. Few are explicitly unhappy with their salaries, with most audio visual technicians having generally positive views of their salary.
We asked audio visual technicians how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
263 audio visual technicians
14% of audio visual technicians rated their compensation 5 stars
25% of audio visual technicians rated their compensation 4 stars
29% of audio visual technicians rated their compensation 3 stars
21% of audio visual technicians rated their compensation 2 stars
11% of audio visual technicians rated their compensation 1 stars
Do audio visual technicians find their jobs meaningful?
On average, audio visual technicians rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.7/5. The majority of audio visual technicians struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.
We asked audio visual technicians how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.7 out of 5 stars
265 audio visual technicians
11% of audio visual technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
16% of audio visual technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
22% of audio visual technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
30% of audio visual technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
20% of audio visual technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as audio visual technicians?
Audio visual technicians rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.9/5. The majority of audio visual technicians find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked audio visual technicians how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.9 out of 5 stars
300 audio visual technicians
30% of audio visual technicians rated their career fit 5 stars
43% of audio visual technicians rated their career fit 4 stars
18% of audio visual technicians rated their career fit 3 stars
7% of audio visual technicians rated their career fit 2 stars
1% of audio visual technicians rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is an audio visual technician’s work environment?
As a whole, audio visual technicians rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.6/5. A solid majority of audio visual technicians enjoy their work environment, probably contributing to overall higher satisfaction with working as an audio visual technician.
We asked audio visual technicians how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.6 out of 5 stars
299 audio visual technicians
19% of audio visual technicians rated their work environment 5 stars
40% of audio visual technicians rated their work environment 4 stars
24% of audio visual technicians rated their work environment 3 stars
13% of audio visual technicians rated their work environment 2 stars
4% of audio visual technicians rated their work environment 1 stars
Are audio visual technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Former audio visual technicians on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.1/5. Most audio visual technicians are satisfied with how well their abilities are skills are made of use.
We asked audio visual technicians how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
299 audio visual technicians
13% of audio visual technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
24% of audio visual technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
28% of audio visual technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
24% of audio visual technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
10% of audio visual technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars