Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians

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2020 Workforce

227k

Average Age

41.8

Average Salary

$44,606

Average Male Salary

$45,081

Average Female Salary

$37,336

About

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians are most often employed by the Services to buildings & dwellings (except cleaning during construction & immediately after construction) industry. The average yearly wage for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians was $44,606 in 2016. The top 3 most similar occupations to Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians by wage are Paper goods machine setters, operators, & tenders, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, and Payroll & timekeeping clerks.

Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians are part of the Installation, maintenance, & repair occupations, along with Firstline supervisors of mechanics, installers, & repairers, Computer, automated teller, & office machine repairers, Radio & telecommunications equipment installers & repairers, Avionics technicians, Electric motor, power tool, & related repairers, and 26 more.

The top 3 locations that employ the most Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians are Norfolk City (Northeast) PUMA, VA, Chesapeake City (Northeast) PUMA, VA, and Phoenix City (West) PUMA, AZ. The top 3 locations with a relatively high concentration of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians are Phoenix City (West) PUMA, AZ, Chesapeake City (Northeast) PUMA, VA, and Peoria City (South & Central) PUMA, AZ.

Employment

Information on the businesses and industries that employ Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians and on wages and locations for those in the field. Services to buildings & dwellings (except cleaning during construction & immediately after construction) is the industry that employs the most Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians, both by share and by number, though the highest paid industry for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians, by average wage, is Offices of physicians. Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians are paid most in Aberdeen & Havre de Grace Cities PUMA, MD but are relatively concentrated in Phoenix City (West) PUMA, AZ.

Yearly Wage

$44,606

AVERAGE SALARY

± $1,810

In 2020, Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians earned an average of $44,606, $11,348 less than than the average national salary of $55,954.

Driver/sales workers & truck drivers make somewhat more than Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians while Paper goods machine setters, operators, & tenders make somewhat less. This chart shows the various occupations closest to Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians as measured by average annual salary in the US.

Wage Distribution

0.351

WAGE GINI

In 2015, Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians had a wage GINI coefficient of 0.351, which is lower than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians (shown in red) than for the overall labor force (shown in gray).

Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows the Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) in the United States shaded by average annual wage for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians.

Spatial Concentration

PUMAs with a Relatively High Concentration of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians

This map displays which Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) in the United States have a relatively high population of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians.

Most Common

The most common industries employing Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians, by number of employees, are Services to buildings & dwellings (except cleaning during construction & immediately after construction), Construction, Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance, Furniture & home furnishings stores, Personal & household goods repair & maintenance, Amusement & Recreation, Lessors of real estate, and offices of real estate agents and brokers, Electric power generation, transmission & distribution, Rail transportation, Other administrative & other support services, and Miscellaneous retail stores.

Highest Paying

The highest paying industries for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians, by average wage, are Offices of physicians, Electric & gas, and other combinations, and Air transportation.

Industries by Share

227k

2020 Workforce

± 11,676

−6.5%

1 YEAR GROWTH

± 7.67%

The number of people employed as Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians has been declining at a rate of −6.5%, from 242,270 people in 2019 to 226,519 people in 2020.

This graphic shows the share of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians employed by various industries. Services to buildings & dwellings (except cleaning during construction & immediately after construction) employs the largest share of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians at 14.4%, followed by Construction with 12.4% and Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance with 3.38%.

Diversity

Demographic information on Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians in the US. The average age of male Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians in the workforce is 41.8 and of female Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians is 41.8, and the most common race/ethnicity for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians is White (Non-Hispanic).

Composition by Sex

213k

MALE WORKFORCE

± 11,313

13.9k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

± 2,895

93.9% of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians are Male, making them the more common sex in the occupation. This chart shows the sex breakdown of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians.

Race & Ethnicity

Most Common Race or Ethnicity of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians

White (Non-Hispanic)
White (Hispanic)
Black (Non-Hispanic)

65.9% of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians are White (Non-Hispanic), making that the most common race or ethnicity in the occupation. Representing 12.6% of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians, White (Hispanic) is the second most common race or ethnicity in this occupation. This chart shows the racial and ethnic breakdown of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians.

Age by Sex

41.8

AVERAGE MALE AGE

± 0.78

41.8

AVERAGE FEMALE AGE

± 3.01

The median age of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians is 41.8, and Male employees are generally 0.0341 years older than than their Female counterparts.

Education

Data on higher education choices for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians from The Department of Education and Census Bureau. The most common major for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians is Business but a relatively high number of Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians hold a major in Engineering Technologies.

Majors

ACS PUMS data only shows the major for bachelor's degrees. However, we can filter the data based on highest degree obtained.

MOST COMMON MAJORS

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Skills

Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians need many skills, but most especially Operation Monitoring. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers, including wind turbine service technicians need more than the average amount of Installation, Repairing, and Equipment Maintenance.