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Automotive Technician Job Description

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automotive technician
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An automotive technician repairs, inspects, and helps to maintain vehicles commonly cars, trucks, busses and other similar vehicle types. An automotive technician works on all parts of the vehicles inccluding the brakes, engines, steering, and electrical systems of vehicles among others. Their responsablilities include performing maintenance and repair on vehicles, conducting extensive diagnostic procedures, maintaining legible and accurate paperwork, verifying vehicle serviceability, testing the functionality of parts and at the same time providing great customer service.

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Avg Pay: $57K
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Avg Pay: $62K
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  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in General Studies
    The number of occurrences matches with Automotive Technician in our database.
    Avg. Duration:45 monthsAvg. Fees:$23,007Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Associate Degree in Pre-engineering
    The number of occurrences matches with Automotive Technician in our database.
    Avg. Duration:24 monthsAvg. Fees:$20,822Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Associate Degree in Psychology
    The number of occurrences matches with Automotive Technician in our database.
    Avg. Duration:12 monthsAvg. Fees:$16,864Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Psychology
    The number of occurrences matches with Automotive Technician in our database.
    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,580Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Economics
    The number of occurrences matches with Automotive Technician in our database.
    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$34,442Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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Annual Pay Estimate for Automotive Technician and Other Important Info

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6.0 years
$60K
The average years of experience in the workforce prior to having this role
3.81 years
Entry
The average number of roles it took our users to get to this one
3
572 out of 4012

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