Also called: Electronic Toll Technician, Toll Equipment Technician
Installs and fixes the overhead cameras, antennas and lasers that charge drivers tolls without stopping.
At night, with a lane closed, you ride a lift up to a toll gantry above the highway. You realign a license-plate camera, swap an antenna that reads toll tags, and test that cars passing at 70 mph are charged correctly.
Estimated; toll agencies and contractors.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 2 years after high school. Electronics associate degree or certificate.
Ways in: 2-year college, Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Electronics Technology.
Growing faster than average. More roads and express lanes are switching to cashless tolls.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Remote monitoring finds faults; field repairs on gantries stay hands-on.
Classes: Electronics, Computer networking, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-2097.
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