Arkansas Storage & Grid jobs: 483 employed (2024)
As of the 2025 U.S. Energy & Employment Report, Arkansas employs 483 people in the storage & grid sector — about 0.5% of the U.S. total. That makes Arkansas the 36th-largest state for storage & grid jobs nationwide.
Storage & Grid Jobs in Arkansas (2024)
National share: 0.49% of all U.S. storage & grid jobs.
Typical Median Wage
1. Employment Landscape
Arkansas ranks 36th out of 51 U.S. states in storage & grid employment. At 483 workers, the state sits below the 25th-ranked Alabama’s tally by 568 jobs, and trails the national leader California by 18,826 storage & grid workers.
1.1 Arkansas’s position vs. the top 10 and median states
1.2 Share of U.S. total
The storage & grid sector nationwide employs roughly 98,434 workers; Arkansas accounts for 483 of them.
1.3 Where Arkansas sits in its own mix
| Sector | Jobs (2024) | National rank |
|---|---|---|
| Energy Efficiency | 16,129 | #32 |
| Wind | 1,006 | #34 |
| Nuclear | 978 | #21 |
| Solar | 947 | #44 |
| Electric Vehicles | 688 | #34 |
| Storage & Grid | 483 | #36 |
| Clean Fuels | 148 | #33 |
| Hydropower | 114 | #44 |
1.4 Sub-sector breakdown in Arkansas
Every storage & grid-related sub-category reported for Arkansas in the USEER workbook, ranked by employment.
2. Pay & Career Roles in Arkansas
Arkansas contributes 0.49% of the nation’s storage & grid workforce. Within Arkansas’s own clean-energy economy, storage & grid accounts for 2.4% of total clean-energy jobs (483 of 20,494 workers).
Cost-of-living in Arkansas is roughly 11.9% lower the U.S. average, so the state-adjusted median wage for storage & grid roles in Arkansas is shown alongside the national BLS figure.
| Role | National median | Arkansas-adjusted | Job Zone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical Engineer | $107,890 | $95,051 | 4 |
| Electrical & Electronics Repairer, Powerhouse | $95,270 | $83,933 | 3 |
| Electrical & Electronics Repairer, Commercial | $66,980 | $59,009 | 3 |
See all 3 storage & grid occupations with national wages and skills →
4. Hiring Difficulty & Industry Mix
Arkansas employers rate 22.9% of clean-energy hires as “very difficult” (plus 20.1% as “somewhat difficult”) — on par with the ~22% national baseline. Combined, 43.0% of Arkansas’s clean-energy roles see some level of hiring friction.
4.1 Employer hiring difficulty
4.2 Jobs by NAICS industry group
| Industry (NAICS group) | Jobs (2024) |
|---|---|
| Construction | 16,812 |
| Manufacturing | 13,294 |
| Other Services | 9,332 |
| Utilities | 8,099 |
| Trade | 7,504 |
| Professional Services | 4,895 |
| Pipeline Transport & Commodity Flows | 4,198 |
| Mining and Extraction | 1,897 |
| Agriculture and Forestry | 1,005 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Data source: U.S. Department of Energy — 2025 U.S. Energy & Employment Report (reflecting 2024 employment); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics; O*NET Occupation Database 29.1.
Last updated: April 2026.