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Friday, October 16, 2009
Are green jobs paying better now?
Posted by Katie Machol on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM
A report released earlier this year by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works claimed that green and clean energy jobs were lower paying than similar non-green jobs. For instance, it said that workers in renewable energy manufacturing facilities were making around $7-$10 an hour less than their non-green manufacturing counterparts. But a report from Clean Edge and PayScale released this past week says it may be quite the contrary for green collar jobs, which comes as good news to all of those who have lost their prior jobs due to the recession.
According to this Green Inc. article: "The median earnings found in the survey range from $36,100 a year for an insulation worker to $112,000 a year for design engineering managers in alternative energy, according to Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale." Mr. Lee also went on to say that several entry-level positions — including jobs as solar-energy system installers and solar fabrication technicians — require only high school or associate’s degrees and pay more than $40,000 annually.
Though clean-tech jobs won't be replacing all of the jobs that have been lost, it's encouraging to see the green jobs being created in the aftermath of ones that had been laid off, like wind turbine manufacturing plants and the Ford assembly plant in Michigan that is being turned into a renewable-energy manufacturing park.
Read the rest of the report by Clean Edge and see the Clean-Job Charts here.
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