Since 2010, the National Solar Jobs Census has been the definitive measure of solar energy industry employment in the United States, charting the growth of the solar workforce alongside the rise of solar energy as a major contributor to the U.S. energy supply and economy as a whole.

The Census was a collaborative effort of the Solar Energy Industries Association, The Solar Foundation, and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council. Primary data collection and analysis was performed by BW Research Partnership.

This report tracked domestic solar employment across all solar industry market sectors and across the supply chain, from residential solar installation to utility-scale construction, and from raw materials to finished products.

Starting in 2015, the methods and data used to create the Census were shared with the U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) that tracks employment across all energy technologies.

In 2023, the Diversity Study was conducted by SEIA and BW Research.