Sabey Wenatchee

Wenatchee's economy combines apple production and processing (the metro is the largest US apple-growing region), hydropower from the Columbia River dams, and growing data center demand from Sabey's Quincy-area campuses and other Pacific Northwest hyperscaler activity in the broader region. One tracked facility and roughly 40 NAICS 518 jobs (estimated). The metro is a very small data center market but hosts oversized hyperscaler infrastructure.

The trades pool is tiny. Electricians at $93,560 across just 370 workers earn near the top of any US metro — reflecting Pacific Northwest prevailing wage rules and the construction labor shortage driven by data center expansion in Quincy and the broader region. HVAC technicians earn $61,630. The 760 maintenance workforce earns $55,100.

For a trades worker, Wenatchee is a hyperscaler-adjacent boom market in a tiny labor pool — IBEW electricians have exceptional leverage. Best fit for trades willing to relocate to rural Eastern Washington for the data center construction and operations work. Cost of living is very low for the wage scale.