Wind Energy Engineers Career, Salary and Skills
Wind Energy Engineers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $122,930 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 154,070. Wage data is published for 301 locations.
Occupation description
Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.
O*NET code
17-2199.10
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$122,930
Hourly median
$59.10
Employment
154,070
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
$66,810
10th
$90,970
25th
$122,930
Median
$158,090
75th
$189,950
90th
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | 4.00 | 4.50 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.75 | 4.62 |
| Mathematics | 3.50 | 4.50 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.50 | 4.00 |
| Writing | 3.38 | 3.75 |
| Active Listening | 3.38 | 3.75 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.38 | 4.00 |
| Speaking | 3.38 | 3.50 |
| Systems Analysis | 3.38 | 3.75 |
| Science | 3.25 | 3.75 |
Typical tasks
- Create or maintain wind farm layouts, schematics, or other visual documentation for wind farms.
- Recommend process or infrastructure changes to improve wind turbine performance, reduce operational costs, or comply with regulations.
- Create models to optimize the layout of wind farm access roads, crane pads, crane paths, collection systems, substations, switchyards, or transmission lines.
- Provide engineering technical support to designers of prototype wind turbines.
- Investigate experimental wind turbines or wind turbine technologies for properties such as aerodynamics, production, noise, and load.
- Develop active control algorithms, electronics, software, electromechanical, or electrohydraulic systems for wind turbines.
- Develop specifications for wind technology components, such as gearboxes, blades, generators, frequency converters, or pad transformers.
- Test wind turbine components, using mechanical or electronic testing equipment.
Technology
- Amazon Web Services AWS software
- ANSYS simulation software
- Apache Ant
- Apache Subversion SVN
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Bentley MicroStation
- C#
- C++
- Computational fluid dynamics CFD software
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- DIgSILENT PowerFactory
- EMD International WindPRO
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- ESRI ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
Wind Energy Engineers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in CAMedian $130,850 · Employment 28,610
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in TXMedian $115,810 · Employment 10,820
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in Washington, DCMedian $151,340 · Employment 9,230
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in FLMedian $105,410 · Employment 8,600
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in MIMedian $121,000 · Employment 7,700
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $125,060 · Employment 7,530
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in MDMedian $129,770 · Employment 7,340
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in OHMedian $120,470 · Employment 7,000
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in LAMedian $99,070 · Employment 6,310
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in Detroit, MIMedian $126,250 · Employment 5,800
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in New York, NYMedian $135,300 · Employment 5,780
- Wind Energy Engineers Salary in NYMedian $117,600 · Employment 5,760
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.