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Clean energy hiring, by the numbers

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New: the October 2026 Clean Energy Hiring Report →
3,250Open US roles tracked right now
80Companies we track
213 GWCapacity of solar, wind and storage scheduled to be built
74%Of open roles publish a salary range

Where the work is

Three views of the same map. The federal count of who already works in clean energy, the capacity developers plan to build next, and the roles we see being advertised today. They rarely line up - which is the problem employers are hiring against.

AK464294
ME2.7K5914
VT2.5K1084
NH3K2460
WA12.3K3.6K9
ID3.2K9592
MT9881.2K3
ND2.2K1.2K11
MN10.2K1.3K116
IL19.7K6.5K186
WI7.8K3.4K11
MI13.5K4.2K6
NY23.5K7.1K132
RI2.3K7189
MA24.9K726268
OR9K7.8K15
NV19K6.7K109
WY7756.6K6
SD2.4K1034
IA5.9K1K34
IN12.9K4K69
OH12.2K3.4K197
PA12.6K2.1K98
NJ11.8K35103
CT4.4K624178
CA139.6K19.9K482
UT9.8K3.8K36
CO18.9K5.4K133
NE2.7K2257
MO6.4K1.9K7
KY3.3K2.2K2
WV1.5K359—
VA9.9K6.4K20
MD9.8K1328
DC2.2K—1
AZ13.5K13.2K59
NM5.5K2.8K28
KS4.1K79528
AR2.3K4.8K7
TN14.3K6115
NC14.6K2.1K61
SC7.4K2.1K46
DE1K20029
OK4.8K2.3K18
LA5.3K1.9K35
MS2K1.6K2
AL4K1.5K47
GA12.2K4.4K9
HI4.6K33123
TX57K68.9K238
FL28.3K1.9K205
People working in solar, wind, storage and grid modernisation (U.S. Energy & Employment Report, county data). Largest: California (139,565), Texas (56,958), Florida (28,296), Massachusetts (24,908), New York (23,546) Solar, wind and storage capacity with a planned build date (EIA). Largest: Texas (68.9K MW), California (19.9K MW), Arizona (13.2K MW), Oregon (7.8K MW), New York (7.1K MW) Open roles on the career sites we track - our coverage, not the whole market. Most: California (482), Massachusetts (268), Texas (238), Florida (205), Ohio (197)

Who you are bidding against

The employers posting the most clean energy roles right now - how widely they are hiring, whether they publish a salary, and how their advertised pay compares with the market rate for the same roles. That last column is the one to read: a low median usually means junior roles, not low pay.

EmployerOpen roles StatesPosts pay Median advertisedPay vs market Hiring most of
Sunrun2431699%$60,000+0%Solar Sales Representative (99)
NextEra Energy1912410%$61,610+0%Wind Turbine Technician (26)
First Solar177690%$45,760-9%Manufacturing Technician (70)
Trinity Solar175997%$68,000+0%Solar Sales Representative (142)
SOLV Energy15116100%$97,767+0%Project Manager (34)
Eversource Energy141391%$121,055+11%Foreman / Supervisor (29)
Mortenson1281341%$95,700+3%Electrician (22)
Invenergy1111895%$94,000+4%Wind Turbine Technician (20)

What these jobs pay

Median advertised pay by role, from live US postings. Each row opens its full benchmark: the percentile range, how it moves by state, and how it compares to neighbouring roles.

What gets built next

Solar, storage and wind capacity with a planned operation date, from the federal generator inventory. Construction hiring runs ahead of these dates, so this is the demand curve before it reaches the job boards.

29.9K2026 Q4
11K2027 Q1
15.4K2027 Q2
13.8K2027 Q3
38.8K2027 Q4
10K2028 Q1
SolarStorageWindMegawatts due online, by quarter

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How this is built. We track 80 companies and read their job pages every day; 43 have US roles open right now. Pay is what those postings advertise, not offers made or salaries paid. The workforce map is the U.S. Energy & Employment Report's county data (2026 edition), rolled up by state, because BLS withholds those figures for 28 states to protect employer confidentiality; planned capacity is the EIA generator inventory (august 2026), solar, wind and storage only. Pay vs market divides each advertised salary by the market median for that same role, so it is not moved by seniority mix, and needs 8+ postings across 3+ roles. Government wage and workforce figures are BLS OEWS (2025) and QCEW (2026Q1). Rebuilt every morning; last built October 21, 2026.