Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Tasks Include:
- Test drive vehicles and test components and systems, using equipment such as infrared engine analyzers, compression gauges, and computerized diagnostic devices.
- Inspect vehicles for damage and record findings so that necessary repairs can be made.
- Test and adjust repaired systems to meet manufacturers' performance specifications.
- Repair, reline, replace, and adjust brakes.
- Estimate costs of vehicle repair.
- Review work orders and discuss work with supervisors.
- Troubleshoot fuel, ignition, and emissions control systems, using electronic testing equipment.
- Confer with customers to obtain descriptions of vehicle problems and to discuss work to be performed and future repair requirements.
- Align vehicles' front ends.
- Test electronic computer components in automobiles to ensure proper operation.
- Tear down, repair, and rebuild faulty assemblies, such as power systems, steering systems, and linkages.
- Perform routine and scheduled maintenance services, such as oil changes, lubrications, and tune-ups.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: +1.8%
National: +1.4%
Education
Post-Secondary Certificate
Job Zone:
Three: Medium Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Highest ($50,000 and up)
Median Earnings:
National
$46,970.00
State
$47,410.00
Regional
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Description
Career Cluster: | Transportation, Distribution, & Logistics |
Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul automotive vehicles.
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Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Education
Required Level of Education
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 50.25%
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 42.60%
- Some College Courses = 5.78%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 1.37%
Related Work Experience
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 27.53%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 24.81%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 16.13%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 14.99%
- Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years = 7.29%
- None = 3.61%
- Over 10 years = 2.65%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 2.30%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 0.69%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 28.41%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 24.29%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 19.02%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 10.24%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 9.61%
- None = 5.48%
- Up to and including 1 month = 2.25%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 0.69%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 38.94%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 14.30%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 13.43%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 11.20%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 8.52%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 8.35%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 5.18%
- None or short demonstration = 0.07%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Test drive vehicles and test components and systems, using equipment such as infrared engine analyzers, compression gauges, and computerized diagnostic devices.
- Inspect vehicles for damage and record findings so that necessary repairs can be made.
- Test and adjust repaired systems to meet manufacturers' performance specifications.
- Repair, reline, replace, and adjust brakes.
- Estimate costs of vehicle repair.
- Review work orders and discuss work with supervisors.
- Troubleshoot fuel, ignition, and emissions control systems, using electronic testing equipment.
- Confer with customers to obtain descriptions of vehicle problems and to discuss work to be performed and future repair requirements.
- Align vehicles' front ends.
- Test electronic computer components in automobiles to ensure proper operation.
- Tear down, repair, and rebuild faulty assemblies, such as power systems, steering systems, and linkages.
- Perform routine and scheduled maintenance services, such as oil changes, lubrications, and tune-ups.
- Follow checklists to ensure all important parts are examined, including belts, hoses, steering systems, spark plugs, brake and fuel systems, wheel bearings, and other potentially troublesome areas.
- Plan work procedures, using charts, technical manuals, and experience.
- Maintain cleanliness of work area.
- Align wheels, axles, frames, torsion bars, and steering mechanisms of automobiles, using special alignment equipment and wheel-balancing machines.
- Tune automobile engines to ensure proper and efficient functioning.
- Repair, replace, or adjust defective fuel injectors, carburetor parts, and gasoline filters.
- Repair and service air conditioning, heating, engine cooling, and electrical systems.
- Disassemble units and inspect parts for wear, using micrometers, calipers, and gauges.
- Change spark plugs, fuel filters, air filters, and batteries in hybrid electric vehicles.
- Overhaul or replace carburetors, blowers, generators, distributors, starters, and pumps.
- Repair or replace parts such as pistons, rods, gears, valves, and bearings.
- Rewire ignition systems, lights, and instrument panels.
- Install, adjust, or repair hydraulic or electromagnetic automatic lift mechanisms used to raise and lower automobile windows, seats, and tops.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Rebuild parts, such as crankshafts and cylinder blocks.
- Conduct visual inspections of compressed natural gas fuel systems to identify cracks, gouges, abrasions, discoloration, broken fibers, loose brackets, damaged gaskets, or other problems.
- Diagnose and replace or repair engine management systems or related sensors for flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) with ignition timing, fuel rate, alcohol concentration, or air-to-fuel ratio malfunctions.
Tasks Include:
- Repair or rebuild transmissions.
- Retrofit vehicle fuel systems with aftermarket products, such as vapor transfer devices, evaporation control devices, swirlers, lean burn devices, and friction reduction devices, to enhance combustion and fuel efficiency.
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Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Special Requirements
http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/Boards/NG-Auto-Mech/
Required Fees:
For More Information, Contact:
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation – Natural Gas Auto Mechanic
Phone: (80.4) .2785
Fax: (86.6) .1033
http://
[email protected]
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Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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95.00 | Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
57.25 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
56.50 | Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
50.50 | Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Skills
% | Subject | Description |
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68.75 | Repairing | Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. |
65.50 | Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
62.50 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
62.50 | Operations Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
59.50 | Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
56.25 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
56.25 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
56.25 | Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
56.25 | Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
53.00 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
53.00 | Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
53.00 | Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
50.00 | Equipment Selection | Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. |
50.00 | Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
50.00 | Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
50.00 | Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
50.00 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
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72.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
72.00 | Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
68.75 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
68.75 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
68.75 | Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
68.75 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
65.50 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
65.50 | Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
59.50 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
59.50 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
59.50 | Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
59.50 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
56.25 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
56.25 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
56.25 | Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
56.25 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
56.25 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
53.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
53.00 | Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). |
50.00 | Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
50.00 | Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
50.00 | Response Orientation | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. |
50.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
50.00 | Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
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90.00 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
86.75 | Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment | Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. |
80.75 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
78.75 | Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment | Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. |
78.25 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
75.00 | Handling and Moving Objects | Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
73.75 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
73.75 | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials | Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
66.25 | Working with Computers | Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
65.75 | Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment | Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles. |
64.75 | Performing General Physical Activities | Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
64.00 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
64.00 | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards | Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
63.50 | Controlling Machines and Processes | Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
63.00 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
61.50 | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others | Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
60.00 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
59.75 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
57.00 | Analyzing Data or Information | Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
55.75 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
51.75 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
51.00 | Communicating with People Outside the Organization | Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
49.50 | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information | Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
49.50 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
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81.50 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
78.75 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
70.75 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
69.25 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
68.75 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
68.50 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
65.75 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
63.00 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
62.25 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
62.00 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
61.75 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
60.50 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
52.50 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
52.25 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
50.25 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
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55.50 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
55.50 | Independence | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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98.60 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
96.60 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
96.20 | In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment | How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or equipment (e.g., car)? |
92.60 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
92.00 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
91.80 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
91.60 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
91.40 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
90.20 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
89.60 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
88.40 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
87.20 | Exposed to Hazardous Conditions | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions? |
86.60 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
86.00 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
84.00 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
83.60 | Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions | How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions? |
83.20 | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? |
79.20 | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? |
77.60 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
75.40 | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? |
73.00 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
73.00 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
72.40 | Very Hot or Cold Temperatures | How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures? |
71.80 | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body | How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? |
71.20 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
71.00 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
68.40 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
65.20 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
64.40 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
64.20 | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People | How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? |
62.00 | Frequency of Conflict Situations | How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? |
61.80 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
61.40 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
61.20 | Electronic Mail | How often do you use electronic mail in this job? |
60.80 | Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling | How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling? |
59.80 | Outdoors, Exposed to Weather | How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions? |
59.40 | Spend Time Walking and Running | How much does this job require walking and running? |
58.80 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
57.20 | Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting | How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions? |
56.20 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
49.80 | Outdoors, Under Cover | How often does this job require working outdoors, under cover (e.g., structure with roof but no walls)? |
49.60 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, desktop publishers, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters and simultaneous captioners, and medical assistants.
- Education
- Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $29,270.00 | $46,970.00 | $60,740.00 |
Virginia | $30,320.00 | $47,410.00 | $60,210.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | $40,504.77 | $59,853.45 | $69,821.08 |
Bay Consortium | $35,996.64 | $49,266.08 | $65,624.89 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $33,158.07 | $46,919.78 | $56,358.87 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $30,809.70 | $39,438.36 | $51,209.24 |
Crater Area | $34,157.11 | $49,545.90 | $60,053.47 |
Greater Peninsula | $33,670.03 | $49,020.47 | $58,776.68 |
Hampton Roads | $33,586.08 | $48,340.62 | $57,804.58 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $30,736.12 | $39,279.80 | $51,447.60 |
Northern Virginia | $40,218.73 | $59,316.62 | $71,378.72 |
Piedmont Workforce | $35,979.02 | $49,889.97 | $63,750.13 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $28,861.36 | $38,603.06 | $51,354.33 |
Southwestern Virginia | $28,855.14 | $35,016.25 | $47,020.31 |
West Piedmont | $29,802.36 | $39,491.21 | $51,402.00 |
Western Virginia | $31,778.69 | $43,414.84 | $51,847.64 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 733,200 | 743,800 | +1.4% |
Virginia | 20,882 | 21,250 | +1.8% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | 800 | 800 | +0.0% |
Bay Consortium | 1,008 | 1,073 | +6.4% |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | 3,098 | 3,301 | +6.6% |
Central VA/Region2000 | 529 | 542 | +2.5% |
Crater Area | 405 | 425 | +4.9% |
Greater Peninsula | 1,427 | 1,444 | +1.2% |
Hampton Roads | 2,698 | 2,725 | +1.0% |
New River/Mt. Rogers | 832 | 786 | -5.5% |
Northern Virginia | 5,529 | 5,629 | +1.8% |
Piedmont Workforce | 848 | 898 | +5.9% |
Shenandoah Valley | 1,483 | 1,491 | +0.5% |
South Central | 355 | 342 | -3.7% |
Southwestern Virginia | 414 | 351 | -15.2% |
West Piedmont | 515 | 451 | -12.4% |
Western Virginia | 785 | 771 | -1.8% |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
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Careers in Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance Pathway:
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants
- Automotive Body and Related Repairers
- Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
- Avionics Technicians
- Bicycle Repairers
- Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists
- Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment
- Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment
- Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Motorcycle Mechanics
- Rail Car Repairers
- Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators
- Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
- Signal and Track Switch Repairers
- Tire Repairers and Changers
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Military Training
The following military job classifications are available for this occupation:
- Aircraft Accessories
- Automotive, General
- Construction Equipment
- Not Occupationally Qualified, General
- Tracked Vehicles
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Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Titles
- Auto Clutch Rebuilder
- Auto Clutch Specialist
- Auto Radiator Specialist
- Auto Suspension and Steering Mechanic
- Auto Transmission Specialist
- Automotive Alignment Specialist
- Automotive Brake Adjuster
- Automotive Brake Specialist
- Automotive Brake Technician
- Automotive Fuel Injection Servicer
- Automotive Fuel Systems Converter
- Automotive Specialty Technician
- Hybrid Car Mechanic
- Motor Tune-Up Specialist
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Related Schools
- Advanced Technology Institute
- Blue Ridge Community College
- Danville Community College
- Eastern Shore Community College
- Germanna Community College
- J Sargeant Reynolds Community College
- New River Community College
- Northern Virginia Community College
- Patrick Henry Community College
- Southside Virginia Community College
- Southwest Virginia Community College
- Tidewater Community College
- Tidewater Tech-Trades
- Virginia Highlands Community College
- Virginia Peninsula Community College
- Virginia Western Community College
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