Compare A Stationary Engineer ↔ B Facilities Manager

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Your route

2 moves · +$35,620 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Facilities Technician: license depends on the work (No state license for in-house maintenance (1305.003(a)(8)); electrical work beyond that needs a TDLR license).
Move 2, to Facilities Manager: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).

Move 1 Transfer move to the side
Stationary Engineer to Facilities Technician -$17,140 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Maintenance and Repair Workers, General as a related occupation (Supplemental); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.80 (O*NET related occupation beyond the 6 drawn laterals).
- Gates: license depends on the work (No state license for in-house maintenance (1305.003(a)(8)); electrical work beyond that needs a TDLR license).
Move 2 Transfer move to the side
Facilities Technician to Facilities Manager +$52,760 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists Facilities Managers as a related occupation (Supplemental); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.50 (O*NET related occupation beyond the 6 drawn laterals).
- Gates checked: no degree, license or hours gate found (O*NET 31.0 and the licensing agencies checked for this job).

Side by side

All Facilities Managers: Texas median $99,430, $35,620 more a year than all Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators ($63,810), every experience level.

Facilities Manager: 48% work more than 40 hours a week, about 1.5 times the share for Stationary Engineer (32%).

This level's pay

A No headline record for this level

B $29.23 to $36.54/h City of Austin (incl. Austin Energy) pay range, 2025

No published schedule lists both jobs, so no level-specific difference is shown.

Occupation-wide pay all experience levels, not this level's pay; Texas median, base pay, $0 to $300k

$63,810+$35,620$99,430

Gates on the route: Facilities Technician: license depends on the work (No state license for in-house maintenance (1305.003(a)(8)); electrical work beyond that needs a TDLR license).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +2.1% United States, 3,800 openings a year

B +13.1% Texas, 1,160 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

32%+16 pts48%

Physical load our index from O*NET, 1 to 5; A B; largest differences first

3.3 / 5-1.02.2 / 5

Hazardous conditions-1.82Hazardous conditions: A 4.29, B 2.47
Very hot or cold-1.80Very hot or cold: A 4.08, B 2.28
Outdoors, all weather-1.60Outdoors, all weather: A 4.26, B 2.66
High places-1.47High places: A 3.66, B 2.19
Hazardous equipment-1.37Hazardous equipment: A 3.99, B 2.62

Degree

A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 0% do).

B Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 7% do).

License

A No license for this job found at TDLR electricians, A/C or TSBPE; TDLR's Boiler Safety program was not checked in this round.

B No license for this job title at the 8 Texas and federal licensing agencies read on 2026-10-03 (TDLR, TSBPE, TCEQ, TCFP, TEA, TBPELS, NRC and EPA).

Experience

A Most common related work experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET: 24%).

B Most common related work experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET: 49%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 2

Active Learning
Systems Evaluation

To build: 6

Management of Personnel Resources +1.12
Learning Strategies +0.88
Service Orientation +0.88
Speaking +0.88
Social Perceptiveness +0.87
Monitoring +0.63

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