LED Video Wall Technician

Also called: Video Engineer (Tour)

Builds and runs the giant LED screens at concerts and events.

A day in the life

An LED tech assembles hundreds of video panels into a giant wall, maps them to the video processor, and swaps out dead panels between shows. Weather and heavy lifting are part of it.

Pay over a career

Starting
$45k
Typical
$65k
High
$100k

Approximate.

Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.

Training

Certificate, about 1 year after high school. About a year of audio-visual or electronics training, then work on a video crew for an AV rental or production company.

Ways in: On-the-job training, Certification. Training cost: Get paid while you train.

Majors to look at: Audio-Visual Technology.

Outlook

Growing faster than average. Grows with video.

Will it last? Our AI estimate

Low risk for 10 years. Building and fixing LED walls under time pressure stays hands-on; AI helps only with calibration.

Start now, in high school

Classes: Electronics, Computer science, Theater tech crew, Physics.

Official data: O*NET occupation 27-4011.

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