Sound Engineering Technicians

AUTOMATION RISK

CALCULATED

55%

risk level

POLLING

30%

Based on 161 votes

LABOR DEMAND

GROWTH

7.5%

by year 2032

WAGES

$59,430

or $28.57 per hour

Volume

14,600

as of 2023

SUMMARY

JOB SCORE

5.6/10

55% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Sentiment

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Sentiment over time (yearly)

Wages

Moderately paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Sound Engineering Technicians' was $59,430, or $28 per hour

'Sound Engineering Technicians' were paid 23.7% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

Comments

Audrey Gardner (Uncertain) 7 months ago

Sound engineering requires not only creativity, but it also has niches and processes that only humans can emulate. The reason I'm uncertain on this, is because of the recent spike in music and sound related AI generation.

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Laszlo 4 years ago

This is my dream job. I'm constantly working towards it for years.
I think every song and every audio engineer is different. And that is the beauty of this. We don't need computer programs to do the mixing and mastering... That would kill the creativity behind a song. And this occupation is full of emotions. The artist puts his/her emotions into the song. The mixing engineer receieves them and puts a little bit of him/herself into the final "product".
I don't want songs to sound nearly the same all the time...
So I will constantly fight against automation in this field!
Please don't take my dream job away!!!

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Lawrence (Highly likely) 4 years ago

As someone has said here...when you see what RX can do now in the program's infancy, and you follow the logical conclusion...it's clear to see plugins and presets are going to be the way of the future. I work with RX every day at an Audiobook production house. People with no engineering training are able to mass process, or batch process, all sorts of voices. Does it sound perfect? Not yet. Is it far off? Not at all.

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copaceaenu stefan (No chance) 5 years ago

because any song u need to mix have another structure, and there are over 1 million songs or maybe more and a robot can't learn that much

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Raf (Uncertain) 5 years ago

When I see what rx can do in post, I'm forced to admit that the job gonna be more automated.

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Jared (No chance) 5 years ago

Robots can't do my job.

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Jessica (Uncertain) 5 years ago

A great deal of shows are already automated, it's just mostly limited to cruise ships at the moment

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