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Skills that raise your pay

• Dialogue editing and re-recording for picture

  The best paid corner of the field, and the one where clean, patient work is noticed.

• Immersive and surround mixing

  Streaming platforms and cinemas want it, and relatively few engineers can do it well.

• Networked audio systems

  Running digital audio over a building's network is now standard in venues, stadiums and broadcast, and system technicians are short.

• Broadcast audio

  Steady salaried work at television and radio stations, with predictable hours that touring and studio work never have.