Kansas Storage & Grid jobs: 706 employed (2024)
As of the 2025 U.S. Energy & Employment Report, Kansas employs 706 people in the storage & grid sector — about 0.7% of the U.S. total. That makes Kansas the 33rd-largest state for storage & grid jobs nationwide.
Storage & Grid Jobs in Kansas (2024)
National share: 0.72% of all U.S. storage & grid jobs.
Typical Median Wage
1. Employment Landscape
Kansas ranks 33rd out of 51 U.S. states in storage & grid employment. At 706 workers, the state sits below the 25th-ranked Alabama’s tally by 345 jobs, and trails the national leader California by 18,603 storage & grid workers.
1.1 Kansas’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; Kansas accounts for 706 of them.
1.3 Where Kansas sits in its own mix
| Sector | Jobs (2024) | National rank |
|---|---|---|
| Energy Efficiency | 18,476 | #31 |
| Wind | 2,098 | #15 |
| Solar | 1,435 | #39 |
| Nuclear | 1,082 | #20 |
| Electric Vehicles | 824 | #31 |
| Storage & Grid | 706 | #33 |
| Hydropower | 201 | #35 |
| Clean Fuels | 160 | #31 |
1.4 Sub-sector breakdown in Kansas
Every storage & grid-related sub-category reported for Kansas in the USEER workbook, ranked by employment.
2. Pay & Career Roles in Kansas
Kansas contributes 0.72% of the nation’s storage & grid workforce. Within Kansas’s own clean-energy economy, storage & grid accounts for 2.8% of total clean-energy jobs (706 of 24,982 workers).
Cost-of-living in Kansas is roughly 9.8% lower the U.S. average, so the state-adjusted median wage for storage & grid roles in Kansas is shown alongside the national BLS figure.
| Role | National median | Kansas-adjusted | Job Zone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical Engineer | $107,890 | $97,317 | 4 |
| Electrical & Electronics Repairer, Powerhouse | $95,270 | $85,934 | 3 |
| Electrical & Electronics Repairer, Commercial | $66,980 | $60,416 | 3 |
See all 3 storage & grid occupations with national wages and skills →
4. Hiring Difficulty & Industry Mix
Kansas employers rate 19.5% of clean-energy hires as “very difficult” (plus 26.5% as “somewhat difficult”) — on par with the ~22% national baseline. Combined, 46.0% of Kansas’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) |
|---|---|
| Professional Services | 25,847 |
| Construction | 12,251 |
| Manufacturing | 11,416 |
| Other Services | 9,366 |
| Trade | 7,338 |
| Utilities | 6,522 |
| Mining and Extraction | 5,521 |
| Pipeline Transport & Commodity Flows | 2,852 |
| Agriculture and Forestry | 679 |
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.