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title: "EV Charging Technician"
description: "Installs, commissions and repairs electric vehicle chargers, from home wall units to high-power fast-charging stations along highways."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/ev-charging-technician"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# EV Charging Technician

**Category:** Construction and Extraction · **SOC code:** 47-2111 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 47-2111.00

Installs, commissions and repairs electric vehicle chargers, from home wall units to high-power fast-charging stations along highways.

Also advertised as: EV Charger Installer; EV Charging Station Technician; EVSE Technician; Electric Vehicle Charger Field Technician; DC Fast Charger Technician.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $63,190 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $30.38/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $42,640 to $108,510, with the middle half between $49,430 and $83,940
- **Total US employment:** 757,220
- **Typical entry education:** High school
- **Preparation required:** Some preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +9.2% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 72,700 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 72/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 757,220 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $42,640 |
| 25th | $49,430 |
| 50th (median) | $63,190 |
| 75th | $83,940 |
| 90th | $108,510 |
| Mean (average) | $71,490 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OR | $101,310 | $98,016 | 10,590 |
| IL | $99,560 | $99,602 | 23,120 |
| HI | $96,460 | $87,730 | 3,070 |
| WA | $95,220 | $88,980 | 19,380 |
| AK | $89,440 | $87,379 | 1,870 |
| MA | $79,420 | $75,097 | 17,810 |
| DC | $78,970 | $71,856 | 2,440 |
| NY | $78,750 | $72,970 | 40,130 |
| MN | $78,160 | $79,253 | 14,350 |
| CT | $77,540 | $74,838 | 7,710 |
| NJ | $77,250 | $70,999 | 13,520 |
| MT | $76,760 | $81,103 | 2,750 |
| WI | $76,540 | $81,343 | 14,310 |
| MI | $76,270 | $79,269 | 23,530 |
| CA | $76,160 | $68,786 | 73,310 |

39 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 54 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/ev-charging-technician/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/ev-charging-technician.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 821,000 in the 2025–2035 base year to 896,900 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 75,900 jobs, or +9.2%. Much faster than average: 9.2% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 72,700 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** High school diploma or equivalent (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Some preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Apprenticeship.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 61.7% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 30.6% |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 2.3% |
| Some College Courses | 2.3% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 1.8% |
| First Professional Degree | 1.3% |

## What the work involves

- Install residential and commercial EV chargers
- Run conduit, wiring and network connections to charging equipment
- Commission chargers and test them with vehicles
- Diagnose faults reported by network operations teams
- Replace cables, connectors and power modules
- Update charger firmware and configuration
- Document repairs and preventive maintenance

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Troubleshooting — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Repairing — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Installation — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Quality Control Analysis — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operations Monitoring — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Building and Construction — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mechanical — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Design — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Information Ordering — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Realistic (R), Conventional (C), Investigative (I).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| R — Realistic | 7.00 |
| C — Conventional | 4.60 |
| I — Investigative | 3.81 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.81 |
| S — Social | 1.32 |
| A — Artistic | 1.24 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 92.5 |
| ISTP | 81.2 |
| ESTJ | 73.0 |
| INTJ | 72.6 |
| ISFJ | 72.1 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Electrician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrician) — median $63,190
- [Lighting Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lighting-technician) — median $68,060
- [Helpers--Electrician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/helpers-electrician) — median $42,670
- [Plumber](https://nuecareer.com/careers/plumber) — median $63,800
- [Electrical Power-Line Installer and Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-power-line-installer-and-repairer) — median $95,320
- [Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electric-motor-power-tool-and-related-repairer) — median $56,210
- [Electrical and Electronics Installer and Repairer, Transportation Equipment](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronics-installer-and-repairer-transportation-equipment) — median $84,890
- [Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assembler](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronic-equipment-assembler) — median $45,930
- [Electrical and Electronics Repairer, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronics-repairer-powerhouse-substation-and-relay) — median $103,020
- [Boilermaker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/boilermaker) — median $76,410

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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