"On November 14th, 2012, The Solar Foundation released its National
Solar Jobs Census 2012, which found that the U.S. solar
industry currently employs 119,016 Americans. This figure represents the
addition of 13,872 new solar jobs and a 13.2 percent employment growth rate
over the previous year. During the same period, employment in the overall
economy grew at a rate of 2.3 percent* (according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics), signifying that 1 in 230 jobs created nationally over the last
year were created in the solar industry."
