Installation & Repair

Wind Turbine Technicians

SOC 49-9081

Maintain and repair wind turbines, often hundreds of feet up.

The job

Median pay

$64k

$59k to $78k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing fast

+30% projected

Openings a year

1.5k

BLS projection

Typical education

Postsecondary cert

Our model

AI displacement risk

Low

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

17/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

19th pct

More exposed than 19% of occupations · modeled estimate · 44th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

73/100

At a glance

Employment for Wind Turbine Technicians is projected to grow 30% over the decade to 2035, 26 points above the typical occupation we cover. Typical entry-level education is a postsecondary certificate. The $64,120 median for Wind Turbine Technicians runs in line with the typical occupation we cover, and in line with the median across Installation & Repair. About 1,500 job openings come up each year, a thin hiring pool by comparison. Works-with-AI scores 17/100 against low displacement risk, balanced between the two, with modeled exposure at the 19th percentile. Where the projection for Telecom Equipment Installers is -3.3%, the figure here is +30%.

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Key skills

Critical Thinking
Reading Comprehension
Monitoring
Active Listening
Speaking
Active Learning

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 50 states and DC. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Texas	3,890	0.3	4.3×	$62k
Iowa	900	0.6	9.0×	$75k
Florida	682 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$56k (estimated)
Minnesota	450	0.2	2.4×	$65k
Colorado	410	0.1	2.2×	$75k
California	400	0.0	0.3×	$78k
New York	390	0.0	0.6×	$81k
Illinois	346 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$65k (estimated)
Oklahoma	340	0.2	3.1×	$59k
Georgia	339 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$62k (estimated)

All 50 states and DC

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Kansas	330	0.2	3.6×	$78k
New Mexico	330	0.4	5.9×	$57k
North Dakota	310	0.7	11.3×	$67k
Virginia	254 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$64k (estimated)
Tennessee	236 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$61k (estimated)
New Jersey	233 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$68k (estimated)
Washington	210	0.1	0.9×	$76k
Wisconsin	186 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$65k (estimated)
South Dakota	180	0.4	6.1×	$74k
Alabama	177 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.3× (estimated)	$61k (estimated)
Massachusetts	176 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$70k (estimated)
South Carolina	168 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$59k (estimated)
Maryland	158 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$66k (estimated)
Louisiana	157 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.3× (estimated)	$57k (estimated)
Kentucky	154 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$62k (estimated)
Oregon	150	0.1	1.2×	$62k
Indiana	140	0.0	0.7×	$77k
North Carolina	120	0.0	0.4×	$66k
Ohio	120	0.0	0.3×	$74k
Utah	112 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$64k (estimated)
Arkansas	102 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$53k (estimated)
Nevada	102 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$65k (estimated)
Connecticut	90 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$70k (estimated)
Wyoming	90	0.3	5.0×	$63k
Arizona	80	0.0	0.4×	$66k
Missouri	80	0.0	0.4×	$65k
Nebraska	74 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$63k (estimated)
Michigan	70	0.0	0.3×	$63k
West Virginia	58 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.3× (estimated)	$53k (estimated)
Maine	50	0.1	1.2×	$59k
Pennsylvania	50	0.0	0.1×	$61k
New Hampshire	45 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$67k (estimated)
Hawaii	43 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$71k (estimated)
Idaho	40	0.0	0.7×	$61k
Montana	40	0.1	1.2×	$62k
Alaska	32 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	1.5× (estimated)	$80k (estimated)
Mississippi	30	0.0	0.4×	$50k
Delaware	27 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$66k (estimated)
Rhode Island	26 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$66k (estimated)
Washington DC	18 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.4× (estimated)	$77k (estimated)
Vermont	18 (estimated)	0.1 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$65k (estimated)

Top metro areas

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,120 jobs · $64k median
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX400 jobs · $58k median
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO160 jobs · $75k median
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX130 jobs · $62k median
Sioux Falls, SD-MN100 jobs · $63k median
Bismarck, ND70 jobs · $67k median
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC40 jobs · $78k median
Greeley, CO30 jobs · $62k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.