Wind turbine technician salary in Dallas, TX
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Wind turbine technicians in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX area earn a median of $57,890 a year, or $27.83 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $78,070. That's 7% less than the Texas median of $61,950.
- Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
- $22.13/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 400
- After cost of living
- $56,150
- Median hourly pay
- $27.83/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −10%
- vs Texas median
- −7%
- Mean (average) pay
- $60,030 a year · $28.86 an hour
Pay by percentile
What wind turbine technicians in Dallas, TX 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 | $22.13 | $46,030 |
| 25th percentile | $23.48 | $48,830 |
| Median (50th) | $27.83 | $57,890 |
| 75th percentile | $31.40 | $65,300 |
| 90th percentile | $37.53 | $78,070 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Dallas, TX compares
- Dallas has the lowest wind turbine technician median of the 3 Texas metro areas with published pay.
- Wind turbine technicians are more concentrated in the Dallas area than nationally: 0.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.
Other Texas metro areas
Other trades in Dallas, TX
Questions
- Do wind turbine technicians make more in Dallas or Houston?
- Houston pays more: the median is $57,890 in Dallas and $64,050 in Houston, a 10% difference.
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 19100 (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX). 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 (103.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures