Wind turbine technician salary in Indiana
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Wind turbine technicians in Indiana earn a median of $76,680 a year, or $36.87 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $82,250 a year. Nationally the median is $64,120, so Indiana pays 20% more than the U.S. overall and ranks 4th of 25.
- Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
- $27.15/hr
- Jobs in Indiana
- 140
- After cost of living
- $82,160
- Median hourly pay
- $36.87/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +20%
- Rank among states
- 4th of 25
- Mean (average) pay
- $73,190 a year · $35.19 an hour
Pay by percentile
What wind turbine technicians in Indiana 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 | $27.15 | $56,470 |
| 25th percentile | $30.30 | $63,030 |
| Median (50th) | $36.87 | $76,680 |
| 75th percentile | $37.85 | $78,720 |
| 90th percentile | $39.55 | $82,250 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Indiana compares
- Wind turbine technicians are less concentrated in Indiana than nationally: 0.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.66 times the U.S. share.
Rural Indiana
- Central Indiana$64,750
Other trades in Indiana
Bidding federal work? Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rates in Indiana 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 18. 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 (93.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures