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Installation, maintenance & repair · Explorer
Electrical power-line installers and repairers in Wisconsin
Electrical power-line installers and repairers within Wisconsin: 79th percentile of the state's own occupation ranking, rank 95 of 447 occupations scored
Workforce
An overview of electrical power-line installers and repairers in Wisconsin. Dots show where Wisconsin sits among all states for this work; the line is the national figure or the median state, and the shaded band covers the middle half of states.
Workers
3k
+19% since 2019
20192025
120tick is median state17k
Employment growth▲ 2.1% vs US
19.4%
2019 to 2025, up 410 workers
-55.6%tick is national277.5%
Aged 55 and over▼ 2% vs US
13%
Share of the current workforce aged 55+
0%tick is national49%
Under 25▲ 3% vs US
16%
Share of the current workforce aged under 25
0%tick is national35%
Five-year retention▼ 1% vs US
72%
Share of entrants working in any skilled trade five years later
Levels, spread, and growth. OEWS May 2025, with a 2019 to 2025 history.
Median pay▲ $11k vs US
$106k
24.9% since 2019, before inflation
20192025
$75ktick is national$134k
Pay spread▼ $2k vs US
$58–120k
10th to 90th percentile
10th percentile
$58k
Median
$106k
90th percentile
$120k
$36ktick is national$90k
Pay premium over workers with a high school diploma outside the trades▲ 8% vs US
113%
Against the median for those workers in Wisconsin ($49.6k, ACS 2020–2024)
58%tick is national174%
Employment growth per year▲ 0.3% vs US
3.0%
Compound annual rate, 2019 to 2025
-12.6%tick is national24.8%
Skills employers ask for
From the Burning Glass Institute Job Postings Database, for this occupation nationally, 2023 to 2025. What is growing, what pays, and what is just arriving. These are national lists - there is insufficient data to breakdown by state.
Fastest growing
Carry a pay premium
Heat Guns+32% pay
Circuit Breakers+28% pay
Haul Trucks+26% pay
Electrical Substation+25% pay
Electric Power Distribution+24% pay
Frontier: both fast-growing and carry a pay premium
Burning Glass Institute Job Postings Database, one of 54 trades with enough advert volume to score. Premiums are wage differences between adverts for the same occupation with and without the skill.
Entry & Training
How people typically enter this work, what exists here to train them, and how often training completes, against the national figure where one is published.
Typical way in
Registered apprenticeship
Typical entry education: High school diploma or equivalent
Registered apprentices▲ 51 per 1k vs US
17k
All trades statewide · 150 per 1k workers in apprenticeship-route trades
33 per 1ktick is national284 per 1k
Apprenticeship completion
64%
Of pooled FY2021-24 exiters statewide
29%tick is median state68%
College trade-program completion▲ 13% vs US
53%
Degree-granting colleges only · institution cohorts, 58,724 students (IPEDS)
30%tick is national65%
Completion at the colleges that supply this work
51%
How often students finish at the programs whose graduates go into this trade here
Pay one year after completing
$54k
State-sourced (College Scorecard)
Growth
Where this work is heading: projected change.
Projected employment change▲ 5.6% vs US
13.3%
2024 to 2034, state long-term projections
-2.9%tick is national16.5%
Shortage Pressure
Each state is shaded by the Burning Glass Institute's Labor Shortage Index, which scores the structural pressure on filling the occupation from nine indicators, including workforce age, new entrants, part-time work, licensing, AI exposure and projected growth. Each occupation is ranked against every other occupation in the same state, so a reading of 90 means more pressure than 90% of occupations in that state. It is a risk score, not a count of unfilled jobs. The worker data come from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, and occupations with fewer than 20 survey respondents in a state are not scored.
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State
Shortage pressure
Workers
Massachusetts
100
2,350
Oregon
95
1,640
Illinois
93
3,090
New York
89
5,840
New Jersey
83
1,310
South Carolina
82
2,690
Utah
82
1,030
California
81
8,930
Tennessee
81
3,900
Ohio
80
4,260
New Mexico
79
1,020
Wisconsin
79
2,520
Nevada
77
920
Michigan
76
2,800
Maryland
73
1,830
New Hampshire
73
560
Pennsylvania
73
4,150
Arizona
72
3,360
Missouri
72
3,440
Kansas
71
1,610
Alaska
70
490
North Dakota
69
740
Hawaii
67
600
Montana
67
680
Vermont
67
270
Louisiana
65
2,520
Minnesota
65
2,190
Virginia
64
2,920
Florida
60
6,420
Oklahoma
59
3,290
Indiana
55
2,540
Iowa
55
1,390
Connecticut
54
940
Kentucky
54
2,930
Georgia
52
4,960
Arkansas
47
1,510
Washington
47
2,340
Texas
44
17,280
West Virginia
41
1,260
Colorado
40
2,370
Maine
39
1,160
Alabama
38
2,730
Mississippi
35
2,290
Nebraska
35
1,490
North Carolina
32
5,650
South Dakota
32
740
Wyoming
17
670
Idaho
14
860
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Wisconsin
Electrical power-line installers and repairers
79percentile, shortage pressure
2,520 workers
States by shortage pressure for electrical power-line installers and repairers
Labor Shortage Index percentile in each state
1Massachusetts100
2Oregon95
3Illinois93
4New York89
5New Jersey83
6South Carolina82
7Utah82
8California81
9Tennessee81
10Ohio80
11New Mexico79
12Wisconsin79
The score is the trade's Labor Shortage Index percentile among all occupations scored in that state: 90 means more structural pressure on filling it than 90% of them, not more vacancies. 48 of 51 states score this trade.
Trades in Wisconsin by shortage pressure
Labor Shortage Index percentile among all occupations scored here
1Precision instrument and equipment repairers99
2Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics98
3Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility96
4Electricians93
5Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic93
6Railroad conductors and yardmasters93
7Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers92
8First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers92
9Glaziers92
10Transportation inspectors92
11Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers91
12Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers90
The score is the trade's Labor Shortage Index percentile among all occupations scored in Wisconsin: 90 means more structural pressure on filling it than 90% of them, not more vacancies. 89 of 110 trades scored.