Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Damage Prevention Technician: $43K median posted pay.
From 15 salary bands employers posted on 25 open damage prevention technician roles in skilled trades. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 2 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Zayo | 15 | — |
| ACRT Services | 5 | — |
| Atmos Energy Corporation (External Career Site) | 5 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open damage prevention technician roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Excavation | 25 | — |
| Dispatch | 15 | — |
| Shipping and Receiving | 14 | — |
| Investigation | 10 | — |
| Customer Service | 10 | — |
| Dispatch Coordination | 5 | — |
| Hazmat Handling | 5 | — |
| Data Entry | 5 | — |
| Transmission Repair | 5 | — |
| DOT Compliance | 3 | — |
Where the work is
48% of these roles are remote.
- Remote48%12 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site44%11 roles
- Not stated8%2 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 25 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 15 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Damage Prevention Technician (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in skilled trades, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.