All trades in Wisconsin

An overview of Wisconsin's skilled trades workforce. 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.

Levels, spread, and growth. OEWS May 2025, with a 2019 to 2025 history.

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.

Where this workforce comes from and where it goes. Click any state to trace it.

Where this work is heading: projected change.

The map shades each state by its demand pressure: projected and realized demand, occupation mix and wage path. The score is an average of their percentiles on each measure compared with other states.

The trades here are ranked on 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.