Electrician vs Solar Installer

Measured from each occupation's own live postings: mostly different jobs wearing similar names. Posted pay is close to a wash. Everything on this page is read from the two occupations’ own live postings and refreshed every night.

The short answer

$54k–$76kElectrician
evenat the midpoint
$52k–$74kSolar Installer

On pay, this one is close to even. Postings that state a salary put electricians at $54k–$76k and solar installers at $52k–$74k, so the midpoints sit within $2k of each other. The difference between the two jobs is in the work and the skills, not the paycheck.

On skills, they are mostly different jobs that happen to share a name or a hallway. The overlap is thin, which is often exactly why people search this pair. The readiness numbers further down say how far a typical profile on each side already reaches into the other, and which direction is the easier move.

Electrician

Posted pay, middle half$54k–$76k
FieldTrades
Postings read6,752
Open right now600 (3 remote)
DemandHigh
LicenseRequired

Solar Installer

Posted pay, middle half$52k–$74k
FieldTrades
Postings read133
Open right now122

The overlap, measured

Skills that appear in both occupations’ posting demand. This is the shared core; everything else on each side is the difference. Each linked skill has its own page with the roles it unlocks.

Switching, both directions

ElectricianSolar Installer

Not scored: the two sets of postings share too few skills in this direction for an honest number. Run the instrument with your own skill set for a personal read.

Solar InstallerElectrician

30% skill readiness

State/journeyman electrician license required

Transition estimate: 12–24 mo + license.

What electrician postings ask for that solar installer profiles usually lack: Maintenance, Blueprint Reading, Electrical Wiring, Deep Learning.

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Open electrician roles right now

The freshest electrician openings on the board, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.

See all 600 electrician jobs

Open solar installer roles right now

The freshest solar installer openings on the board. Same rules: live, tagged to the occupation, linking to the original posting.

See all 122 solar installer jobs

See the whole board for both

722 live roles across the two, freshest first, with posted pay and remote flags where the posting states them.

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Quick answers

Which pays more, electrician or solar installer?

On pay, this one is close to even. Postings that state a salary put electricians at $54k–$76k and solar installers at $52k–$74k, so the midpoints sit within $2k of each other. The difference between the two jobs is in the work and the skills, not the paycheck. By seniority and country: electrician salary and solar installer salary.

Are electrician and solar installer the same job?

On skills, they are mostly different jobs that happen to share a name or a hallway. The overlap is thin, which is often exactly why people search this pair. The skills both sets of postings want most are Electrical Systems, Solar PV, Drafting, Hand & Power Tools, Customer Service.

Can a solar installer become an electrician?

Going the other way, a typical solar installer profile covers 30% of what electrician postings ask for. Keep in mind: state/journeyman electrician license required. Our estimate for the move is 12–24 mo + license.

How many electrician and solar installer jobs are open right now?

Right now our board has 600 electrician openings and 122 solar installer openings, each linking to the original posting. The board refreshes every night, so the counts move with the market. Hiring the most electricians at the moment: iPersonal AG (136), fachkraft.ch GmbH (53), STA Personal AG (16). For solar installers: iPersonal (52), iPersonal AG (18), fachkraft.ch GmbH (5).

Method: each occupation’s salary band is the posted 25th to 75th percentile from its own corpus, counting only postings that state pay; readiness is coverage of the destination’s posting-skill weight; shared skills are read from the overlap waterfall. Pairs sharing too few skills are not scored in that direction. Job lists and counts are the live board. Refreshed with the nightly scrape.

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