The median annual wage for aerospace engineering and operations technicians was $66,180 in May 2015. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $39,560, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $99,090.

In May 2015, the median annual wages for aerospace engineering and operations technicians in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:

Aerospace engineering and operations technicians are employed throughout the private sector, with large and small manufacturing organizations, as well as with engineering services firms. Schedules worked tend to parallel those of the other engineering and operations staff members, and most work full time.