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What sound engineers make
Median
$68,000
Lower end
$44,000
Upper end
$95,000
Job Bank's national median for audio and video recording technicians is $32.86 an hour, about $68,000 a year full time. The lower end ($21) and upper end ($45.46) are the bottom and top of the range for everyone in the group. Staff jobs in broadcast, film post-production and game audio are the steadiest. Music studios are the hardest to get into.