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Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service

Operate telephone business systems equipment or switchboards to relay incoming, outgoing, and interoffice calls. May supply information to callers and record messages.

$34,330median, a year
$34,790mean (average), a year
740people employed in this job here

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