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Re:Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry by heygrady on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:47PM (#13750128)
According to the article, they are not highly skilled workers.

> Many of the jobs are also accessible to people who might otherwise struggle to find well-paying jobs. An entry-level worker without a degree can conceivably double their salary within a year, from $10-$12 an hour for simple manual labor to $20-$23 an hour. The median wage posted for solar installer jobs in 2016 was $26 an hour.

Re:Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry by Gibbon1 on Monday February 27, 2017 @08:24PM (#13750336)
> from $10-$12 an hour for simple manual labor to $20-$23 an hour.

What that says to me is jobs installing solar have higher productivity than other available low skilled jobs.