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Specialties that raise your pay

• Biomedical equipment

  Hospitals employ technicians to keep monitors, pumps and imaging machines running. Steady, unionized, and well paid.

• Industrial and automation

  Drives, sensors and PLCs (programmable logic controllers) on factory floors. Overlaps with instrumentation.

• Telecom and broadcast

  Transmitters, fibre and network hardware.

• Technologist upgrade

  Adding the third year and registering with a provincial technology association opens design and supervisory roles.