Wind Turbine Service Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Wind Turbine Service Technicians offer sit among all 11,220 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 11,220 Wind Turbine Service Technicians jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in North Dakota, where the location quotient is 8.03, meaning the occupation holds 8.03 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 5,010 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 56.0% of the national total.

One in ten workers in this field earns $49,110 or less, and one in ten earns $88,090 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 1.8 to 1 and the annual gap is $38,980. The mean ($67,580) versus median ($62,580) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 5,010 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Pennsylvania would lead at $85,570. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Wind Turbine Service Technicians stands number 673 by employment and number 368 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations, the group median wage is $59,300 across 51 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 6% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 19 of the 25 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $62,580, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is the largest metro employer with 1,600 jobs, 14.3% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $61,770 a year, against $63,950 in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $62,580 works out to $5,215 a month before taxes, $2,407 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,203 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($58,910) to the 75th ($75,640) is worth $16,730 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $68,838 would sit between the median ($62,580) and the 75th percentile ($75,640), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $58,910, is $3,670 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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