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Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Solar Photovoltaic Installerss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for solar photovoltaic installers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 50 metro areas

Solar Photovoltaic Installers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$78,360	40	0.6
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$72,150	710	0.3
3	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$71,630	280	0.3
4	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$70,130	2,190	0.2
5	Urban Honolulu, HI	$69,940	330	0.8
6	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$69,550	40	0.4
7	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$67,810	60	0.1
8	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$66,320	210	0.2
9	Salinas, CA	$62,260	Not published	Not published
10	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$61,810	100	0.5
11	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$61,630	Not published	Not published
12	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$61,340	550	0.4
13	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$61,020	100	0.8
14	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$60,230	70	0.4
15	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$60,050	790	0.5
16	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$59,960	100	0.5
17	Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT	$59,950	200	0.7
18	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$59,930	700	0.7
19	Modesto, CA	$59,920	50	0.3
20	Albuquerque, NM	$59,800	120	0.3
21	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$59,650	Not published	Not published
22	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$59,600	1,930	0.3
23	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$59,400	380	0.1
24	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$59,110	120	0.4
25	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$58,350	580	0.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Solar Photovoltaic Installers overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.