2026 LED & Solar Salary Guide
National wage benchmarks for the 10 most-recruited LED retrofit and solar roles, sourced from BLS/O*NET wage data - with every role that lacks a distinct BLS classification labeled, not hidden.
What's inside
- National median wage + growth outlook for Solar PV Installers and Electricians, BLS-sourced
- Search-demand data showing where candidate curiosity actually is - pay and certification, not job boards
- Every role without a distinct BLS classification labeled, never fabricated
- Related-trade context using the Electricians classification that underlies most of this work
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Download 2026 LED & Solar Salary GuideWhat the public wage data already says about LED & solar pay.
The guide is built from our own placement records. This is the other half - what the federal government published for Solar Photovoltaic Installers in May 2025, free, before any of our data is added to it.
There is no federal occupation code for LED & solar on its own. Solar Photovoltaic Installers is the closest published occupation, and it is what every figure in this section describes.
The eight metros that pay it best.
| Metro | Median | vs national | Employed | Concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco, CA | $72,150 | +36% | 710 | 1.49× |
| San Jose, CA | $71,630 | +35% | 280 | 1.24× |
| New York, NY | $70,130 | +32% | 2,190 | 1.15× |
| Las Vegas, NV | $67,810 | +28% | 60 | 0.27× |
| Portland, OR | $66,320 | +25% | 210 | 0.88× |
| Seattle, WA | $61,630 | +16% | — | — |
| San Diego, CA | $61,340 | +15% | 550 | 1.79× |
| Riverside, CA | $60,050 | +13% | 790 | 2.28× |
Concentration is the location quotient: 1.00× is the national rate, 1.40× means the metro has 40% more of these workers per job than the country as a whole.
The same job title pays $72,150 in San Francisco and $39,690 in Indianapolis - $32,460 a year apart. That is across the 37 of our 100 metros where BLS publishes a median for it; in the other 63 the local sample is too small to publish, which is its own signal about how many of these people are around.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Figures are annual, for all employers, not only commercial contractors.
