Weighted power means with weights and exponents serving as their parameters are generalizations of arithmetic means. Taking into account decision makers' flexibility in decision making, each attribute value is usually expressed by a q-rung orthopair fuzzy value (q-ROFV, ≥ q 1), where the former indicates the support for membership, the latter support against membership, and the sum of their qth powers is bounded by one. In this paper, we propose the weighted power means of qrung orthopair fuzzy values to enrich and flourish aggregations on q-ROFVs. First, the q-rung orthopair fuzzy weighted power mean operator is presented, and its boundedness is precisely characterized in terms of the power exponent. Then, the q-rung orthopair fuzzy ordered weighted power mean operator is introduced, and some of its fundamental properties are investigated in detail. Finally, a novel multiattribute decision making method is explored based on developed operators under the q-rung orthopair fuzzy environment. A numerical example is given to illustrate the feasibility and validity of the proposed approach, and it is shown that the power exponent is an index suggesting the degree of the optimism of decision makers. K E Y W O R D S aggregation operator, multiattribute decision making, q-rung orthopair fuzzy value, weighted power mean 2836 | DU operations. 22 Ye et al 23 studied the single variable differential calculus under q-rung orthopair fuzzy environment. Shu et al 24 developed q-rung orthopair fuzzy definite integrals to aggregate q-rung orthopair fuzzy continuous information. Peng et al 25 presented the exponential operation of q-ROFVs, in which the bases are positive real numbers and the exponents are q-ROFVs. Joshi et al 26 introduced the notion of interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets by combining interval-valued and q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets. In the seminal paper of Yager, 12 a general framework of constructing aggregation operators of q-ROFSs is provided. Specially, Yager et al 12,17 developed the Sugeno and Choquet aggregation operators on q-ROFSs based on a pair of dual aggregation operators. Along this line of research, Liu et al introduced a large number of operators on q-ROFSs, including the weighted averaging/geometric operator, 18 (weighted, geometric) Bonferroni mean operator, 19 (weighted) Archimedean Bonferroni mean operator, 27 power (weighted) average operator, 28 power (weighted) Maclaurin symmetric mean operator, 28 and (weighted) Heronian mean operator. 29 Wei et al further put forward the generalized (weighted) Heronian mean operator, 30 (weighted) geometric Heronian mean operator 30 and (dual, weighted) Maclaurin symmetric mean operator 31 for q-ROFSs. Wang et al 32 presented the q-rung orthopair fuzzy (weighted, dual) Muirhead mean operators for fusing q-ROFSs. Peng et al 25 proposed the q-rung orthopair fuzzy weighted exponential aggregation operator over q-ROFSs based on the exponential operation of q-ROFVs.Weighted power mean (WPM, also called the generalized weighted averaging operator) is an i...