LEED Consultant
Impact: Green building certification and sustainability performance through expert LEED consulting
Guide building projects through the LEED certification process by advising on sustainable design strategies, managing documentation requirements, coordinating with project teams, and ensuring projects achieve their target LEED certification level. Provide expertise on energy efficiency, water conservation, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Moderate
- Team vs solo
- 60% Team / 40% Solo
- Client facing
- Sometimes
- Impact visibility
- Moderate
- Travel
- 15 to 25% for site visits and client meetings
- Schedule flexibility
- Moderate
- Remote work
- Hybrid
- Typical work hours
- 38 to 50 hours/week
- Stress level
- Moderate
At a glance
- Median salary
- $125,000
- Entry-level
- $65,000 - $90,000
- Senior
- $210,000+
- Growth by 2033
- 10% (as fast as average)
- Demand
- Growing
- Freelance potential
- Low
- Salary growth potential
- High - 65 to 80% growth from entry to senior
- Typical student debt
- Moderate
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- 55
Soft skills
- 45
Technical complexity: Moderate
How to get there
- Minimum education
- Bachelor's Degree
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 2 to 4 years
- Years to senior
- 5 to 8 years
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Sustainability Analyst > LEED Specialist > LEED Consultant > Senior LEED Consultant > Head of LEED Practice
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- 15% low risk as LEED consulting requires physical site work and expert judgment
- AI disruption risk
- Low
- Demand trend
- Growing
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 7/10
- Meaning
- 7/10
- Work-life balance
- 6.5/10
- Prestige
- 7/10
- Social perception
- High