Senior-Level

Division Toll Wire Chief

On the toll side of telecom plant operations, the Division Toll Wire Chief oversees long-distance wire infrastructure across a division — installation, maintenance, and reliability for the toll network. The role carries the technical depth and operational authority of senior plant leadership.

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Conventionalorganizing, detail-oriented
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Job markets for Division Toll Wire Chiefs
Employment concentration · ~390 areas
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Division Toll Wire Chief

A typical week tends to involve crew assignments across the division's toll network, capital and maintenance planning, response to outages on long-haul circuits, coordination with engineering and switching, safety walks, and the steady administrative work senior plant operations require. Outages on toll circuits affect customers across the division, raising the stakes on every response.

Coordination spans field crews and district chiefs, dispatchers, engineering, switching, regulators, and corporate. The hardest part is often holding network reliability through long-tail challenges — aging infrastructure, technology transitions, contractor capacity. Safety in long-distance plant work has zero margin as crews work in conditions and environments where mistakes are unforgiving.

People who tend to thrive here are operationally relentless, technically grounded across long-haul plant, and respected by experienced field leaders. If you struggle with on-call exposure or the politics of senior plant operations, the role can wear. If you find satisfaction in a division-wide network that holds up reliably and crews that trust how you operate, the role can be steady and respected within long-distance operations.

RelationshipsHigh
Working ConditionsHigh
IndependenceHigh
RecognitionAbove avg
AchievementAbove avg
SupportModerate
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
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1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Division Toll Wire Chiefs (SOC 11-1021.00), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$47K–$208K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
3.6M
U.S. Employment
+4.4%
10yr Growth
309K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$74K$71K$68K$65K$62K201920202021202220232024$62K$74K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

Active ListeningSpeakingMonitoringReading ComprehensionCritical ThinkingCoordinationSocial PerceptivenessManagement of Personnel ResourcesComplex Problem SolvingTime Management
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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) · BLS Employment Projections · O*NET OnLine
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