There are all kinds of reasons to become an appliance repair tech. The trade is profitable, in high demand, offers a good work-life balance, satisfying, practical, and all manner of other flattering adjectives. On top of all that, as I mentioned in a previous post, appliance repair is a future-proof skill -- new developments like AI don't pose a threat to a tech's career.

If you're a technically minded person who enjoys problem solving, you'll do very well in appliance repair -- this makes it a great option for people leaving other skilled fields and looking for a new career.

Why Become an Appliance Repair Tech?

Let's go through some of those reasons I listed on why appliance repair is a good trade to get into.

• Profitable: In 2025, the average salary for appliance repair techs employed by a company was $64,643, with opportunities to quickly progress and earn up to $78,666. If you're self employed and committed, that number can get much higher --  we know of many seasoned techs who make above $100,000 a year. You just have to be willing to take on the risks and extra work that comes with operating your own business.
• In high demand: There is always a market for appliance repair, basically no matter where you live. Everyone has appliances, and they're always breaking. In fact, many areas of the United States have a shortage of appliance repair techs, and many more have a shortage of competent appliance techs.
• Offers a good work-life balance: If you work for an appliance repair company, you are often able to negotiate your work schedule to suit your lifestyle. And if you start your own company, then you of course have complete freedom to determine your own hours! Either way, when you're out on a service call, you're your own person -- no boss breathing down your neck, just you and the problem to be solved.
• Satisfying: Appliance repair is engaging work, and often, quite fun! Every service call is a new problem to solve in a new location with a new customers to interact with. Each day will have you stretching your brain with technical puzzles and meeting people. And more than that, the satisfaction that you get from the knowledge that your work is directly solving people's problems is unmatched in many other industries. Each completed service call is a person whose life you have tangibly improved.
• Practical: No paper pushing or mind-numbing desk work here! You'll be getting your hands on machinery, working with electricity, and honing technical skills that apply to the real world. Many of these skills are highly applicable to other fields, so even if you don't ultimately stay in appliance repair, you will have developed skills that are useful no matter where you are in life.

That all sounds great, if I do say so myself! Now let's take a look at how you enter the appliance repair trade.

What are the Requirements to Become an Appliance Tech?

There are only a few things you need to have to start your journey as an appliance tech.

• First and foremost, you need to enjoy problem solving, since that's what appliance repair is all about.
• You should have some basic mechanical skills. If you know which end of a screwdriver to hold and can follow a YouTube video showing how to take something apart, then you've got what it takes to get into the trade.
• You need to be comfortable with or ideally enjoy interacting with people. Managing customers is a key non-technical side of appliance repair that can't be taken for granted.
• Finally, you need to be willing to learn, and never stop learning. The moment you think you know it all is the moment you start falling behind in a skilled trade like appliance repair.

That's it! If those qualities sound like you, then you'll make a killing as an appliance tech and have a great time doing it.

How Do I Become an Appliance Repair Tech?

Here's the real meat of it: you have the aptitude and the desire, but how do you actually get there?

Well, lucky for you, appliance repair training is neither expensive, time-consuming, nor especially difficult when you enroll in our premier online appliance repair training at Master Samurai Tech.

Here's how it works.

Step 1: Enroll in training

To get started in the trade, enroll in our Core Appliance Repair Training course. This is our flagship appliance repair course that will teach you everything you need to know to get started in the trade for just $850. For additional depth and breadth of training, you can enroll in our entire program of courses for $2,145.

So what do you get from these courses? We are recognized throughout the appliance repair industry as the most comprehensive and in-depth appliance repair training available. In just our Core course, you'll learn:

• How all major household appliances work
• How their various underlying technologies work
• How electricity works
• How to read a schematic
• How to form a troubleshooting plan that will correctly identify the issue every time

All of our training is online and self-paced. That means you don't have to take on the extra expenses of traveling and spending weeks in an in-person training facility. You can instead fit the training in around your existing work schedule, whether that's your current job or the hands-on practice that you're doing. Speaking of which...

Step 2: Hands-on Practice

When you hear people talk about a trade like appliance repair, they usually focus on how it's a manual skill. But this fundamentally misses the point: appliance repair is first and foremost a brains-on skill. Your brain tells your hands what to do!

This means that hands-on practice is important, but it's not training. Training is what goes on between your ears, and that's what you'll be getting from Master Samurai Tech.

To start applying what you're learning from the online courses, you just need to get your hands on appliances. If you're working for an existing appliance repair company,  this means riding along with experienced techs to apply your training on the job. If you're starting your own company, this means getting a little more creative: you can work on friends' or family's appliances, fix up used appliances from Craigslist, or just tinker with your own machines.

Step 3: Graduation and beyond...

If you have trained with us at Master Samurai Tech, you get a huge leg up in the trade in several ways:

• Certification: In most States, appliance repair requires very little or no licensing to get started. This makes it easy to get into the trade, but it also means that you can benefit greatly from a badge of achievement that sets you above the competition. This is where the we can help. If you apply yourself to your learning and meet the certification requirements for our Master Samurai Tech courses, you will receive a Certificate of Achievement and have the right to call yourself an MST Certified Tech. Our certification is recognized throughout the industry as putting you in the upper echelon of skilled technicians.
• Ongoing technical training and support: Enrollment and certification in MST training also gives you free access to this site, Appliantology, which is the web's best tech support tool. To name just a few benefits of Appliantology, you'll get access to the an expert, professional-only tech help community with the Internet's sharpest techs, service manual downloads for every major brand available in the United States, and hundreds of hours of ongoing training videos that will keep you abreast of the latest technology in the trade.

So what are you waiting for? Enroll in the Core Appliance Repair Training course today and enter a bright future as an appliance repair technician.