Occupation / job
Wind Turbine Service Technicians
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
A $64,120 midpoint puts Wind Turbine Service Technicians $14,100 above the $50,020 typical American job — a 28% premium paid for the training, the licence or the conditions. It is not free money and it disappears the moment you stop meeting the requirement.
Employment as Wind Turbine Service Technicians is 9,980 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.
These roles suit people who want to be the one who keeps things running, in work where competence is obvious to everyone around you within about a week.
We carry no verified training length for Wind Turbine Service Technicians — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $58,840 and $78,010, $1,597 a month apart at a ratio of 1.3x. Narrow enough that what you can expect is close to what everyone else gets.
At $58,840, or $28.28 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $8,820 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.
Avoid it if you need to be off duty; this is a category of work that gets called at inconvenient hours by definition.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 9,980 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
A 1.3x spread means the top quarter of Wind Turbine Service Technicians is not doing a different job from the bottom quarter, just a slightly better-paid version of the same one. Between $58,840 and $78,010 is the whole of the negotiation.
The middle half of this field earns between $58,840 and $78,010. That is $19,170 of range, with $64,120 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $78,010. Reaching it from the $64,120 midpoint is $13,890 a year; reaching it from the $58,840 that the bottom quarter of Wind Turbine Service Technicians earn is $19,170.
The top quarter of Wind Turbine Service Technicians begins $13,890 above the $64,120 midpoint, while the bottom quarter starts only $5,280 below it. A range stretched that far in one direction is the signature of a field where a small group earns a great deal more than the middle does.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $30.82 at the midpoint for Wind Turbine Service Technicians, $28.28 at the 25th percentile and $37.50 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Wind Turbine Service Technicians. The self-employed are excluded, so $64,120 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $64,120 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Wind Turbine Service Technicians, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
How this is calculated · Self-employment failure rates · What credentials cost and pay back · Look up something else