Alternative careers for electricians
6 measured moves out of electrician, scored against 1,711 live postings and ranked by how much of each destination a typical profile already covers. Salary, timeline, and licence gate attached to every one. In a typical year 5.4% of electricians move to a different occupation.
The routes, ranked
The number is coverage, not a guess: what share of the destination's own postings an electrician already answers. Open a route for the full gap.
- Electrician → Maintenance Technician29%$45k–$65k12–24 mo
- Electrician → Solar Installer27%$50k–$70k12–24 mo
- Electrician → Automotive Technician24%$50k–$80k12–24 mo
- Electrician → Plumber21%$50k–$75k12–24 mo + license · license
- Electrician → Robotics Technician16%$50k–$85k12–24 mo
- Electrician → Welder14%$45k–$60k12–24 mo
What the ranking shows
Derived from the 6 routes above, recomputed each night.
- The set splits 5/1: 5 destinations sit inside trades, 1 outside it (engineering).
- 3 are corroborated by observed US worker transitions. The remaining 3 are scored from posted skills alone.
- None of the priced destinations pays more than electrician work at the median. A move from here buys a different kind of job, not a raise.
- Maintenance appears in 5 of 6 destinations, Blueprint Reading in 5, Electrical Systems in 4.
1,383 of these roles are open right now.
Counted across 6 destinations hiring now. Your skill set is not the typical electrician profile, so run it and see where the ranking moves. Free, no account.
Skipping ahead: 512 open automotive technician roles, the largest live board among them, at 24% readiness from electrician.
Quick answers
What are the best alternative careers for electricians?
Going by what employers actually post, the closest moves for an electrician right now are maintenance technician (29% ready), solar installer (27%) and automotive technician (24%). That percentage is how much of the destination's posted skill demand a typical electrician profile already covers, so the higher it is, the less you have to learn before you are competitive.
How many careers can an electrician actually reach?
We can measure 6 routes out of electrician with real skill overlap, read from 1,711 live postings. That may sound like a short list, but most pairs of occupations share almost no skills at all, so 6 realistic destinations is the honest picture rather than a limitation. 1 of them are licensed professions, where the credential sets the timeline no matter how good the skill match is.
Do electrician skills transfer to other jobs?
Yes, and we can put a number on it: the closest destination, maintenance technician, is already 29% covered by a typical electrician profile before any retraining. Each route page shows you exactly which of your skills carry over and which ones you would still need, read from the destination's own postings.
Method: readiness is coverage of each destination's posting-skill weight by a typical electrician profile, from the same nightly corpus the instrument runs on. Routes sharing fewer than three skills are not scored. What electricians earn today: electrician salary. Open electrician roles on the board: 600 live. Worker-transition context is BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Employment Projections.