Electricians: Compensation Across the United States: Statewide and metro medians ranked against the national figure, OEWS May 2025

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Electricians: Compensation Across the United States

Statewide and metro medians ranked against the national figure, OEWS May 2025

Where electricians earn the most and least across 49 states, the District, and 22 profiled metros — Oregon leads at a $101,310 median (+60.3% vs. the US figure), Arkansas trails at $49,070 — BLS OEWS May 2025.

Overview

This profile ranks what electricians are paid across the United States — every state plus the District of Columbia, and the twenty-two metropolitan areas with released WIL Compensation Profiles — against the national median, using the most recent federal occupational wage statistics. It covers the largest licensed construction trade. All figures are annual wages in US dollars from the BLS OEWS May 2025 reference period; statewide estimates average across metro and non-metro areas within each state. Unlike the state and metro profiles in this series, cross-geography comparison is the purpose of this page. The profile is produced under the Lab's public-source compensation benchmarking method (WIL-CBM-1.0): it is a public-data profile, not a peer survey, and it describes pay positioning only — it makes no claim about labor availability or hiring conditions.

Table 1. National annual wage distribution — Electricians (SOC 47-2111), OEWS May 2025
Geography	10th pctile	Median	Mean	90th pctile	Employment
United States	$42,640	$63,190	$71,490	$108,510	757,220

Annual wages, US dollars. Employment is OEWS-estimated national occupational employment. — Sources: BLS

Electricians · OEWS May 2025

Ten highest statewide medians

US dollars, thousands. National median $63,190. Public-source federal statistics — pay positioning, not an availability measure.

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 — Electricians (SOC 47-2111); United States, 49 states + DC, 22 profiled MSAs · Methodology WIL-CBM-1.0 · Public-source federal statistics. Annual wages in US dollars; OEWS estimates are modeled from employer surveys and carry published relative standard errors.

Table 2. Statewide median annual wage, ranked — Electricians, OEWS May 2025
#	State	Median	10th pctile	90th pctile	Employment	vs. US
1	Oregon	$101,310	$59,550	$131,530	10,590	+60.3%
2	Illinois	$99,560	$49,240	$123,660	23,120	+57.6%
3	Washington	$95,220	$52,170	$133,950	19,380	+50.7%
4	Massachusetts	$79,420	$46,990	$128,210	17,810	+25.7%
5	District of Columbia	$78,970	$51,950	$125,790	2,440	+25.0%
6	New York	$78,750	$45,740	$131,640	40,130	+24.6%
7	Minnesota	$78,160	$47,480	$118,820	14,350	+23.7%
8	Connecticut	$77,540	$47,680	$104,280	7,710	+22.7%
9	New Jersey	$77,250	$48,570	$130,860	13,520	+22.3%
10	Montana	$76,760	$49,130	$89,510	2,750	+21.5%
11	Wisconsin	$76,540	$44,830	$101,770	14,310	+21.1%
12	Michigan	$76,270	$42,980	$103,120	23,530	+20.7%
13	California	$76,160	$46,800	$140,340	73,310	+20.5%
14	Wyoming	$76,120	$48,240	$104,000	2,960	+20.5%
15	Maine	$75,380	$54,180	$115,720	3,780	+19.3%
16	Rhode Island	$74,090	$42,990	$102,840	2,420	+17.2%
17	Nevada	$73,570	$46,110	$121,200	8,350	+16.4%
18	Maryland	$73,490	$46,450	$118,370	13,690	+16.3%
19	Indiana	$68,490	$43,190	$99,310	19,020	+8.4%
20	Pennsylvania	$67,600	$45,600	$122,620	22,730	+7.0%
21	Kansas	$65,860	$42,660	$96,830	6,350	+4.2%
22	North Dakota	$65,710	$46,440	$101,020	3,570	+4.0%
23	Missouri	$65,410	$43,860	$104,060	12,780	+3.5%
24	West Virginia	$64,810	$43,620	$95,140	4,290	+2.6%
25	Ohio	$64,700	$40,750	$99,280	28,950	+2.4%
26	Delaware	$63,700	$38,280	$105,340	2,260	+0.8%
27	Vermont	$63,430	$47,470	$132,080	1,270	+0.4%
28	Idaho	$63,000	$38,830	$95,470	5,690	−0.3%
29	Virginia	$62,900	$40,780	$105,720	23,630	−0.5%
30	New Hampshire	$62,840	$43,190	$91,850	3,330	−0.6%
31	Colorado	$62,230	$45,520	$94,160	17,010	−1.5%
32	Utah	$62,000	$39,940	$89,110	11,450	−1.9%
33	Louisiana	$61,540	$38,750	$81,810	10,550	−2.6%
34	South Dakota	$61,390	$44,320	$80,060	2,980	−2.8%
35	Tennessee	$61,090	$39,600	$92,160	17,070	−3.3%
36	Arizona	$61,060	$45,540	$89,600	21,140	−3.4%
37	Oklahoma	$61,010	$37,900	$92,740	8,500	−3.4%
38	Iowa	$60,860	$39,770	$89,480	10,310	−3.7%
39	Mississippi	$60,860	$38,200	$76,540	6,610	−3.7%
40	Nebraska	$60,820	$40,400	$94,040	6,440	−3.8%
41	Kentucky	$59,720	$37,110	$85,260	11,030	−5.5%
42	South Carolina	$58,740	$44,330	$77,800	8,010	−7.0%
43	Texas	$58,570	$37,920	$80,300	76,770	−7.3%
44	New Mexico	$58,390	$36,650	$86,830	5,020	−7.6%
45	Georgia	$58,320	$37,180	$84,000	21,650	−7.7%
46	Florida	$57,250	$38,190	$77,180	49,700	−9.4%
47	North Carolina	$56,800	$40,130	$75,060	21,640	−10.1%
48	Alabama	$55,690	$37,640	$78,230	10,900	−11.9%
49	Arkansas	$49,070	$34,910	$74,460	7,500	−22.3%

Ranked by published median. Percentages computed from OEWS medians as shown; positive = above the national median. Alaska and Hawaii are not in the Lab's warehouse and are omitted. “—” marks an estimate BLS does not publish — missing values are never shown as zero. — Sources: BLS

Table 3. Median annual wage in the 22 profiled metros, ranked — Electricians, OEWS May 2025
#	Metro	State	Median	10th pctile	90th pctile	Employment	vs. US
1	San Francisco	CA	$92,830	$55,360	$182,340	9,060	+46.9%
2	San Jose	CA	$91,030	$54,290	$173,340	5,480	+44.1%
3	San Diego	CA	$76,160	$47,890	$126,260	8,060	+20.5%
4	Bakersfield	CA	$75,860	$46,770	$123,940	1,410	+20.1%
5	Sacramento	CA	$74,830	$46,230	$130,020	6,340	+18.4%
6	Los Angeles	CA	$73,810	$46,140	$131,680	20,610	+16.8%
7	Riverside–San Bernardino	CA	$72,790	$45,360	$139,430	7,880	+15.2%
8	Fresno	CA	$71,710	$46,090	$119,800	1,980	+13.5%
9	Las Vegas	NV	$70,890	$45,810	$121,200	5,730	+12.2%
10	Columbus	OH	$64,700	$46,090	$94,410	7,210	+2.4%
11	Nashville	TN	$63,340	$45,900	$93,200	6,220	+0.2%
12	Phoenix	AZ	$61,210	$46,920	$86,800	17,240	−3.1%
13	Memphis	TN	$60,890	$38,670	$84,890	2,770	−3.6%
14	Austin	TX	$60,390	$39,260	$78,820	7,340	−4.4%
15	Houston	TX	$59,180	$38,800	$84,470	19,730	−6.3%
16	Charlotte	NC	$59,080	$43,770	$76,310	5,250	−6.5%
17	Dallas–Fort Worth	TX	$59,010	$38,740	$81,660	20,930	−6.6%
18	Atlanta	GA	$58,650	$37,380	$84,000	13,430	−7.2%
19	Savannah	GA	$58,430	$38,850	$84,150	650	−7.5%
20	San Antonio	TX	$57,010	$37,460	$75,670	6,660	−9.8%
21	Raleigh	NC	$56,800	$45,700	$73,760	3,740	−10.1%
22	College Station–Bryan	TX	$48,410	$34,740	$74,170	500	−23.4%

The twenty-two metropolitan statistical areas with released WIL Compensation Profiles; each links to its own profile in the series. — Sources: BLS

What the figures show

Oregon pays electricians the highest statewide median in the country, $101,310 — +60.3% against the $63,190 national figure — followed by Illinois at $99,560. At the other end, Arkansas posts $49,070 (−22.3%), making the highest statewide median 2.06 times the lowest. 27 of the 49 states exceed the national median; 22 sit below it. Among the profiled metros, San Francisco leads at $92,830 (+46.9% vs. the US median), while College Station–Bryan is lowest at $48,410. Employment is concentrated: the five largest states — Texas (76,770), California (73,310), Florida (49,700), New York (40,130), Ohio (28,950) — account for 36% of the 757,220 electricians counted nationally. These are observed wage comparisons only; nothing here measures how hard this occupation is to hire.

Method and limitations

Prepared under WIL-CBM-1.0 (Public-Source Compensation Benchmarking: A Method Note, WIL-RB-2026.3-COMP-METHOD). All figures are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for SOC 47-2111 read from the Lab's governed warehouse (BLS_OEWS ingest, September 2026): the United States, 49 states and the District of Columbia (Alaska and Hawaii are not in the warehouse and are omitted rather than estimated), and the twenty-two MSAs with released WIL Compensation Profiles. Rankings use the published median; the 10th and 90th percentiles are shown for distribution context. OEWS wages are modeled estimates with published relative standard errors, wider in small cells; statewide figures average metro and non-metro areas and can mask within-state variation visible in the metro table. Any cell BLS does not publish is shown as missing, never zero. Union density and prevailing-wage coverage differ sharply across these geographies and likely explain part of the spread, but OEWS does not identify bargaining status, so that is context, not a finding. This profile asserts pay positioning only — not workforce availability, not hiring conditions.

Suggested citationAlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab. (2026). Electricians: Compensation Across the United States: Statewide and metro medians ranked against the national figure, OEWS May 2025 (Publication No. WIL-RB-2026.3-COMP-OCC-ELEC, Version 1.0). WIL Compensation Profiles.

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  title       = {Electricians: Compensation Across the United States: Statewide and metro medians ranked against the national figure, OEWS May 2025},
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