Also called: Video Board Technician, LED Display Service Technician
Installs and fixes the huge LED scoreboards and video walls in arenas, stadiums, malls and Times Square–style billboards.
Before a basketball game, you swap a dead panel on the arena’s center-hung video board while dangling from a catwalk. During the game you sit in the control room ready to fix any glitch before 18,000 fans notice.
Estimated; event-night work and travel are common.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Electronics certificate or associate degree plus manufacturer training.
Ways in: Certification, 2-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Electronics Technology, Audio-Visual Technology.
Growing faster than average. LED screens keep spreading to schools, churches and shopping centers.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Remote diagnostics already pinpoint bad panels; replacing them on catwalks stays human.
Classes: Electronics, Computer science, Theater tech crew.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-2097.
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