Wind turbine technician salary in Arizona
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Wind turbine technicians in Arizona earn a median of $66,330 a year, or $31.89 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $92,700. That's 3% more than the national median of $64,120, 12th of 25 states and DC.
- Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
- $24.63/hr
- Jobs in Arizona
- 80
- After cost of living
- $65,880
- Median hourly pay
- $31.89/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +3%
- Rank among states
- 12th of 25
- Mean (average) pay
- $71,030 a year · $34.15 an hour
Pay by percentile
What wind turbine technicians in Arizona earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.
| Percentile | Hourly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $24.63 | $51,240 |
| 25th percentile | $29.64 | $61,640 |
| Median (50th) | $31.89 | $66,330 |
| 75th percentile | $38.33 | $79,730 |
| 90th percentile | $44.57 | $92,700 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
Pay over time
The median wind turbine technician wage in Arizona rose 1.4%, from $65,400 in May 2022 to $66,330 in May 2025. Prices rose 10% over the same period, so after inflation it fell 7.8%.
| Year | Median a year | Median an hour |
|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | $65,400 | $31.44/hr |
| May 2023 | $61,790 | $29.71/hr |
| May 2024 | $66,710 | $32.07/hr |
| May 2025 | $66,330 | $31.89/hr |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, each May release; inflation from the BLS Consumer Price Index (CPI-U, May of each year). BLS cautions against reading much into year-to-year changes, so we compare the first and last years. How we compare years
How Arizona compares
- Wind turbine technicians are less concentrated in Arizona than nationally: 0.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.40 times the U.S. share.
Other trades in Arizona
Bidding federal work? Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rates in Arizona list what contractors must pay wind turbine technicians on federal and federally assisted jobs, county by county.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 49-9081 (Wind Turbine Service Technicians), area code 04. BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed wind turbine technicians and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (100.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures