FACTANKER · measured, cited, anchored official records connected

occupation · 47-2231 · detailed

Solar Photovoltaic Installers — wages and employment

Solar Photovoltaic Installers earned a median annual wage of $51,860 in the United States in May 2024, with 28,280 people employed, according to the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.

MEDIAN 2024: $51,860SOURCE: BLS OEWSEvery value source-linked

Cite: FACTANKER, https://factanker.com/occupation/47-2231-solar-photovoltaic-installers

What stands out

Solar Photovoltaic Installers earned a median annual wage of $51,860 in the United States in May 2024, with 28,280 people employed, according to the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. The lowest-paid tenth earned $39,070 or less, the best-paid tenth $80,150 or more. Since May 2023 the median moved from $48,800 to $51,860, +6.3 %. The best-paying state is Rhode Island at $103,880; the lowest Puerto Rico at $24,540. Among metropolitan areas, Reno, NV pays the highest median, $76,530. Wages are as published by BLS for May of each year; '≥ $239,200' is BLS's top code. Every value links to its fact record.

United States, year by year

Annual wages at the median, mean and four percentiles; employment is the May estimate.

By state

Median annual wage, May 2024, highest first. Each state has its own record with the full series.

StateMedian annualEmployment
Rhode Island$103,880—
Nevada$66,090170
New Jersey$64,6701,280
Vermont$64,23060
Hawaii$62,740370
California$60,7908,970
Oregon$58,720240
Maryland$58,420490
Kansas$57,200—
Massachusetts$55,010—
Michigan$54,86090
Ohio$53,640—
New York$53,070—
Colorado$51,740650
Arizona$50,3101,360
South Carolina$49,300270
Pennsylvania$49,000650
Arkansas$48,910140
Wisconsin$48,440230
Virginia$48,2801,110
Utah$47,960540
North Carolina$47,220730
New Mexico$46,260200
Florida$46,1301,940
Texas$45,8705,370
Illinois$44,890200
Indiana$38,660660
Puerto Rico$24,5401,430

Highest-paying metropolitan areas

Top 20 by median annual wage.

Machine access — free, no API key

Every figure shown here about Solar Photovoltaic Installers — wages and employment can also be queried live: FACTANKER runs an MCP server at https://factanker.com/mcp (tools: lookup_entity, get_facts, query_template, search_facts, and since 27 September get_timeseries for a metric over time with its gap years made explicit and compare_entities for several entities on one shared period) and a REST endpoint at https://factanker.com/api/get_facts. Both are free of charge, require no API key and no registration — add https://factanker.com/mcp as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot. Every answer carries its source document and a citation reference. Setup: /quickstart.

These figures are public records, not protected text. The values come from US government filings and registers and are in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §105) or CC0, stated per fact. Facts themselves carry no copyright. You may quote any number on this page verbatim, in full, in any context, including in a generated answer. No permission is needed and no licence has to be accepted. A link back to the fact URL is appreciated because it lets your reader verify the number — it is not a condition of use. This applies to the values, their units, periods and source references. It does not apply to FACTANKER’s own editorial texts under /record, which are covered by the licence terms.