Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
Tasks Include:
- Design active direct or indirect, passive direct or indirect, or pool solar systems.
- Perform routine maintenance or repairs to restore solar thermal systems to baseline operating conditions.
- Apply operation or identification tags or labels to system components, as required.
- Assess collector sites to ensure structural integrity of potential mounting surfaces or the best orientation and tilt for solar collectors.
- Connect water heaters and storage tanks to power and water sources.
- Determine locations for installing solar subsystem components, including piping, water heaters, valves, and ancillary equipment.
- Fill water tanks and check tanks, pipes, and fittings for leaks.
- Identify plumbing, electrical, environmental, or safety hazards associated with solar thermal installations.
- Install circulating pumps using pipe, fittings, soldering equipment, electrical supplies, and hand tools.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: +9.9%
National: +1.9%
Education
High School Diploma
Job Zone:
Three: Medium Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Highest ($50,000 and up)
Median Earnings:
National
$60,090.00
State
$50,500.00
Regional
Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
Description
Career Cluster: | Architecture & Construction |
Install or repair solar energy systems designed to collect, store, and circulate solar-heated water for residential, commercial or industrial use.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
Education
Required Level of Education
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 43.24%
- Some College Courses = 24.90%
- Bachelor's Degree = 11.23%
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master. = 11.23%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 7.52%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 1.88%
Related Work Experience
- None = 29.22%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 16.75%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 15.72%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 13.67%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 13.05%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 11.60%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 37.69%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 30.74%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 15.48%
- Up to and including 1 month = 9.78%
- None = 4.49%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 1.82%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 39.51%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 19.51%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 18.52%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 17.54%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 4.93%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Design active direct or indirect, passive direct or indirect, or pool solar systems.
- Perform routine maintenance or repairs to restore solar thermal systems to baseline operating conditions.
- Apply operation or identification tags or labels to system components, as required.
- Assess collector sites to ensure structural integrity of potential mounting surfaces or the best orientation and tilt for solar collectors.
- Connect water heaters and storage tanks to power and water sources.
- Determine locations for installing solar subsystem components, including piping, water heaters, valves, and ancillary equipment.
- Fill water tanks and check tanks, pipes, and fittings for leaks.
- Identify plumbing, electrical, environmental, or safety hazards associated with solar thermal installations.
- Install circulating pumps using pipe, fittings, soldering equipment, electrical supplies, and hand tools.
- Install copper or plastic plumbing using pipes, fittings, pipe cutters, acetylene torches, solder, wire brushes, sand cloths, flux, plastic pipe cleaners, or plastic glue.
- Install flat-plat, evacuated glass, or concentrating solar collectors on mounting devices, using brackets or struts.
- Install heat exchangers and heat exchanger fluids according to installation manuals and schematics.
- Install monitoring system components, such as flow meters, temperature gauges, and pressure gauges, according to system design and manufacturer specifications.
- Install plumbing, such as dip tubes, port fittings, drain tank valves, pressure temperature relief valves, or tanks, according to manufacturer specifications and building codes.
- Install solar collector mounting devices on tile, asphalt, shingle, or built-up gravel roofs, using appropriate materials and penetration methods.
- Install solar thermal system controllers and sensors.
- Test operation or functionality of mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and control systems.
- Apply weather seal, such as pipe flashings and sealants, to roof penetrations and structural devices.
- Cut, miter, and glue piping insulation to insulate plumbing pipes and fittings.
- Demonstrate start-up, shut-down, maintenance, diagnostic, and safety procedures to thermal system owners.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Apply ultraviolet radiation protection to prevent degradation of plumbing.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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93.25 | Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
91.25 | Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. |
86.25 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
76.75 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
75.25 | Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
73.25 | Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
73.00 | Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. |
69.50 | Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
64.50 | Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
62.75 | Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. |
60.00 | Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
50.00 | Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Skills
% | Subject | Description |
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93.75 | Installation | Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications. |
59.50 | Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
59.50 | Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
56.25 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
56.25 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
56.25 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
56.25 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
56.25 | Operations Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
53.00 | Troubleshooting | Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
53.00 | Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
53.00 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
50.00 | Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
50.00 | Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. |
50.00 | Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
50.00 | Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
50.00 | Equipment Maintenance | Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
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65.50 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
62.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
62.50 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
59.50 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
59.50 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
59.50 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
59.50 | Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
56.25 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
56.25 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
56.25 | Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
56.25 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
56.25 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
56.25 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
53.00 | Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. |
53.00 | Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
53.00 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
50.00 | Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
50.00 | Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
50.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
50.00 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
50.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
50.00 | Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
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78.25 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
77.25 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
74.25 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
71.50 | Performing General Physical Activities | Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
68.00 | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others | Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
67.25 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
66.75 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
66.25 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
64.25 | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials | Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
64.25 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
64.25 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
62.50 | Handling and Moving Objects | Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
60.50 | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards | Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
60.50 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
60.25 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
60.00 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
59.25 | Training and Teaching Others | Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
57.75 | Documenting/Recording Information | Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
57.25 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
56.50 | Developing and Building Teams | Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
56.00 | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information | Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
54.25 | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public | Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
53.25 | Coaching and Developing Others | Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
52.75 | Analyzing Data or Information | Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
52.50 | Communicating with People Outside the Organization | Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
50.25 | Selling or Influencing Others | Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
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92.00 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
91.25 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
88.50 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
85.75 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
85.00 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
85.00 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
84.75 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
83.00 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
83.00 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
82.75 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
81.75 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
80.25 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
80.25 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
79.25 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
76.75 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
68.50 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
50.00 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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94.20 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
87.60 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
85.00 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
84.80 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
84.00 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
83.60 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
83.40 | Outdoors, Exposed to Weather | How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions? |
83.20 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
82.80 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
82.80 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
82.40 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
80.60 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
80.40 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
79.20 | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? |
79.00 | Exposed to High Places | How often does this job require exposure to high places? |
78.40 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
78.00 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
77.40 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
73.60 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
72.60 | In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment | How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or equipment (e.g., car)? |
72.40 | Electronic Mail | How often do you use electronic mail in this job? |
69.20 | Very Hot or Cold Temperatures | How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures? |
68.20 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
68.20 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
67.20 | Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions | How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions? |
67.00 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
66.60 | Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting | How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions? |
66.40 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
66.20 | Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling | How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling? |
63.40 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
63.20 | Spend Time Climbing Ladders, Scaffolds, or Poles | How much does this job require climbing ladders, scaffolds, or poles? |
62.00 | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? |
61.60 | Exposed to Hazardous Conditions | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions? |
61.20 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
60.00 | Outdoors, Under Cover | How often does this job require working outdoors, under cover (e.g., structure with roof but no walls)? |
59.80 | Spend Time Keeping or Regaining Balance | How much does this job require keeping or regaining your balance? |
59.40 | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body | How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? |
57.20 | Spend Time Walking and Running | How much does this job require walking and running? |
57.00 | Frequency of Conflict Situations | How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? |
54.40 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
54.00 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
51.80 | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? |
51.80 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
51.60 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
49.60 | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People | How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, desktop publishers, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters and simultaneous captioners, and medical assistants.
- Education
- Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $37,250.00 | $60,090.00 | $78,960.00 |
Virginia | $37,240.00 | $50,500.00 | $61,890.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | $42,322.09 | $60,742.63 | $71,189.10 |
Bay Consortium | $37,272.95 | $51,094.81 | $65,250.39 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $37,962.08 | $49,765.11 | $61,408.00 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $35,544.44 | $46,804.02 | $59,048.22 |
Crater Area | $38,881.61 | $48,352.75 | $62,805.89 |
Greater Peninsula | $41,895.39 | $62,002.07 | $69,201.26 |
Hampton Roads | $39,661.66 | $52,584.65 | $63,750.21 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $34,540.19 | $45,582.80 | $53,466.99 |
Northern Virginia | $44,266.53 | $61,479.29 | $71,628.20 |
Piedmont Workforce | $39,052.08 | $51,755.01 | $64,022.97 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $36,029.00 | $47,196.63 | $54,338.99 |
Southwestern Virginia | $35,073.31 | $42,175.38 | $52,777.86 |
West Piedmont | $36,312.09 | $47,361.94 | $59,400.53 |
Western Virginia | $36,741.89 | $49,139.00 | $60,616.58 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 469,000 | 478,000 | +1.9% |
Virginia | 15,462 | 16,997 | +9.9% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | 693 | 792 | +14.3% |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | 1,858 | 2,090 | +12.5% |
Central VA/Region2000 | 495 | 528 | +6.7% |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | 3,410 | 3,598 | +5.5% |
Hampton Roads | 2,951 | 3,173 | +7.5% |
New River/Mt. Rogers | 150 | 158 | +5.3% |
Northern Virginia | 3,070 | 3,560 | +16.0% |
Piedmont Workforce | 937 | 1,052 | +12.3% |
Shenandoah Valley | 815 | 891 | +9.3% |
South Central | 204 | 199 | -2.5% |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | 177 | 236 | +33.3% |
Western Virginia | 524 | 538 | +2.7% |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
Military Training
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- Not Occupationally Qualified, General
- Other Craftsworkers, N.E.C., General
- Steelworking
- Utilities, General
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Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
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important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
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