I'm currently a student electronics technician at a community college. While its very challenging I am enjoying the challenge. Sometimes I want to rip my hair out but I still enjoy the training. Anyway is salary.com accurate, it says an Electronics technician 1/entry level in NJ makes a median salary of close to $46,000? After I graduate from this course I am thinking of getting PLC technician training. good idea and will it really help with finding employment and with making a better wage? Thank you for the help, I truly appreciate any advice or information.
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The truth is, get as much training and education as possible. Try to get on board with an employer that will pay for industry training.
PLC's are just about everywhere. I work for a water utility and PLC's are used in what is called SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems which provides telemetry and control of various areas of the water supply and water treatment systems (including transmission to and from homes over water lines, towers, pump stations, lift stations, sewer force mains, etc).
But it doesn't stop there, electric utilities, factories of all types, even security (video, sensor, etc), HVAC and many other industries usee PLC's and systems like SCADA for monitoring and control.
An educational track, no matter how specific your concentration is often very general. You'll fall into a few specific fields and make that your niche. You can even move to other fields under electronics technician. Where I work, all of the ET's are well versed on the SCADA systems but they could easily go work else where that uses them, they just may have to learn new business processes (such as going from a water supply utility to waste water treatment, or more extreme to electrical).
Getting that additional training, education, and certification WILL improve your chances at making more money. Just make sure you enjoy the work.
PLC's are just about everywhere. I work for a water utility and PLC's are used in what is called SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems which provides telemetry and control of various areas of the water supply and water treatment systems (including transmission to and from homes over water lines, towers, pump stations, lift stations, sewer force mains, etc).
But it doesn't stop there, electric utilities, factories of all types, even security (video, sensor, etc), HVAC and many other industries usee PLC's and systems like SCADA for monitoring and control.
An educational track, no matter how specific your concentration is often very general. You'll fall into a few specific fields and make that your niche. You can even move to other fields under electronics technician. Where I work, all of the ET's are well versed on the SCADA systems but they could easily go work else where that uses them, they just may have to learn new business processes (such as going from a water supply utility to waste water treatment, or more extreme to electrical).
Getting that additional training, education, and certification WILL improve your chances at making more money. Just make sure you enjoy the work.