Electricians: where your skills can take you
Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures. Ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes. May install or service street lights, intercom systems, or electrical control systems.
Most common qualification in Australia: a certificate or diploma (79% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Electricians: A$113,900 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia) · Electrical licence (state) — mandatory to work unsupervised
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Three moves that use what a electrician already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Rail Car Repairers
🧰 Your current job already uses finding the cause of a fault, repairing things, keeping equipment in good order and checking quality.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (61%).
🪪 Some specialties need a state licence or certificate (for example electrical work) — check your state
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul railroad rolling stock, mine cars, or mass transit rail cars.
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
🧰 Your current job already uses finding the cause of a fault, repairing things, keeping equipment in good order and checking quality.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in Australia is a certificate or diploma (48%).
🪪 Some specialties need a state licence or certificate (for example electrical work) — check your state
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of a building in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; HVAC maintenance; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; repairing electrical or mechanical equipment; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs.
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
In national shortage — employers actively looking (Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025)
🧰 Your current job already uses finding the cause of a fault, repairing things, watching gauges and readings and installing equipment.
🎓 A certificate or diploma. About the same level of study as your job, but in a different field: it leans on Mechanical, which your job does not use much. The most common level in Australia is a certificate or diploma (75%).
🪪 State plumbing licence or registration — mandatory for water, sewer, drainage and gas work
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Assemble, install, alter, and repair pipelines or pipe systems that carry water, steam, air, or other liquids or gases. May install heating and cooling equipment and mechanical control systems. Includes sprinkler fitters.
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O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.
Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.