Electrician Salary Calculator

1. Keep the pay type on hourly rate and type your own rate. Pick annual salary only for a salaried role.
2. Set your regular hours, weeks worked and average overtime hours. Change the multiplier to 2 for double-time work.
3. Read the annual gross pay, the pay per period and the BLS percentile. Add a second offer to see the difference.

What each result tells you:

On load the tool uses the BLS median rate of $30.38 an hour, which gives $63,190.40 for 40 hours over 52 weeks.

An electrician salary calculator is a tool that converts electrician pay between pay periods and benchmarks it against official wage statistics. You supply the rate and hours. The tool supplies the national wage distribution.

The benchmark is the Bureau of Labor Statistics code 47-2111, Electricians. BLS says electricians install, maintain and repair electrical power, communications, lighting and control systems in homes, businesses and factories. Line installers who work on distribution and transmission lines are a separate BLS occupation and are not in these figures.

The tool suits journey workers who want to price overtime, apprentices looking ahead to full pay, and anyone weighing two shops. It does not model license levels. BLS publishes one wage distribution for all electricians, not separate figures for apprentice, journey or master status.

The calculator adds straight-time pay and overtime pay for the year, then locates your base rate on the BLS wage scale.

1. Straight-time pay equals rate times regular hours times weeks.
2. Overtime pay equals rate times multiplier times overtime hours times weeks. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires at least time and one-half after 40 hours in a workweek for covered, nonexempt employees. Use the overtime pay calculator for a single odd week.
3. Pay periods come from the annual total: divide by 12 for a month, or by weeks worked for a week.
4. The percentile is a straight-line estimate. A rate of $38.50 lies between the median of $30.38 and the 75th percentile of $40.36, near the 70th percentile.

BLS collects straight-time wages and excludes overtime pay and shift differentials. The comparison therefore uses your base rate.

A journey-level electrician earns $38.50 an hour on commercial jobs. He averages 8 overtime hours a week at time and one-half and is paid for 50 weeks.

1. Straight-time pay: $38.50 x 40 x 50 = $77,000.00.
2. Overtime rate: $38.50 x 1.5 = $57.75 an hour.
3. Overtime pay: $57.75 x 8 x 50 = $23,100.00.
4. Annual gross: $100,100.00. Weekly gross: $2,002.00. Biweekly gross: $4,004.00.
5. Base rate against BLS: +$8.12 an hour above the median, or +26.7%.

Overtime supplies 23.1 percent of his gross pay. At double time the same hours would pay $30,800.00 and lift the total to $107,800.00. His percentile stays near the 70th in both cases, because overtime does not change the base rate.

Electricians earned a median of $30.38 an hour in May 2025. The mean was $34.37 an hour, or $71,490 a year. Half of all electricians earned between $49,430 and $83,940.

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, SOC 47-2111 Electricians, national estimates. Read on 2026-10-02. BLS did not top-code any of these figures.

The spread is wide. The 90th percentile annual wage is $65,870 higher than the 10th percentile wage.

Employer Type

The employer matters more than the tool belt. Electricians in government earned a median of $79,820, against $61,570 at electrical contractors. Contractors employ 66 percent of electricians.

Niche Industries

The highest hourly means are in energy and pipeline industries, led by natural gas distribution at $57.99. These industries employ few electricians.

State

Oregon has the highest state mean wage for electricians at $47.96 an hour. Texas has the most electrician jobs.

Overtime

BLS says overtime is common for electricians and that they should expect it during scheduled maintenance and on construction sites. Overtime raises gross pay but not the base rate that BLS measures.

Licensing and Training Stage

Most states require electricians to pass a test and hold a license. BLS states that apprentices receive less pay than fully trained electricians and that their pay increases as they learn to do more. BLS publishes no wage by license level.

Electricians earn nearly the same median wage as plumbers and more than HVAC technicians and carpenters. Electricians also have the highest 90th percentile wage of the four at $108,510.

BLS reports a median of $58,150 for all construction trades workers. The electrician median is $5,040 above that, and $12,210 above the median for all occupations.

Pricing a Shop Change

Enter your rate and the new rate as the second offer. Moving from $33.00 to $36.50 an hour adds $7,280.00 a year at 40 hours and lifts the rate from the 57th to the 65th percentile.

Testing an Overtime-Heavy Job

Shutdown and maintenance work pays through long weeks. Enter the average overtime to see how much of the year depends on extra hours.

Looking Ahead from an Apprenticeship

Apprentices can enter the 25th percentile, median and 75th percentile rates to see the range of fully trained pay. BLS notes that most apprenticeships last 4 or 5 years.

Turning a Salary into a Rate

Supervisors and estimators on salary can switch the pay type to annual. The straight-time rate then shows how the salary compares with tool-carrying work.

Electricians need a high school diploma or equivalent, and most learn the trade in a 4 or 5 year apprenticeship. BLS says apprentices typically receive 2,000 hours of paid on-the-job training each year, plus technical instruction.

BLS projects electrician employment to grow 9 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than the average for all occupations. Employment rises by 75,900 to 896,900.

About 72,700 openings are projected each year. BLS links the growth to solar and wind connections, power grid upgrades, and data centers that support artificial intelligence.

Comparing an apprenticeship with a degree? The trade school vs college calculator sets the costs side by side.

1. Counting Overtime Twice

Enter your base rate, not an average that already includes overtime. The tool adds overtime from the hours you enter.

2. Expecting a Master Electrician Figure

BLS does not split wages by license. Averages by license level do not come from BLS.

3. Mixing in Line Worker Pay

Power line installers are a different occupation with their own wage table. Their pay does not belong in an electrician comparison.

4. Using One Big Week as the Average

A 60 hour shutdown week is not a normal week. Average your overtime over the whole year first.

5. Comparing Gross Pay with Take-Home Pay

Every figure here is gross. A job offer quoted as net pay will always look lower.

6. Ignoring the Employer Mix

A government or manufacturing job is measured against the same national scale, yet those industries have higher medians than contractors.

The conversions are exact, and the BLS benchmark is a survey estimate. BLS lists a relative standard error of 0.4 percent for the electrician mean wage and 0.8 percent for employment.

Electricians earned a median of $30.38 an hour in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The middle half earned between $23.76 and $40.36 an hour.

The mean annual wage for electricians was $71,490 in May 2025. The median was $63,190, which means half of electricians earned more and half earned less.

BLS does not publish a wage for master electricians. It reports one distribution for all electricians, with a 75th percentile of $83,940 and a 90th percentile of $108,510 a year.

Apprentice electricians receive less pay than fully trained electricians, and their pay increases as they learn to do more. BLS gives no national apprentice wage. The program sponsor sets the schedule, so ask it for the current rates.

Oregon pays the highest state mean wage for electricians at $47.96 an hour in the BLS May 2025 data. Washington, Hawaii, Illinois and Alaska complete the top five.

Forty dollars an hour is well above the national median of $30.38. It sits near the 74th percentile and equals $83,200.00 over a 2,080 hour year.

Covered, nonexempt electricians must receive at least one and one-half times their regular rate for hours over 40 in a workweek under federal law. Some contracts and states pay more, such as double time. Enter your own multiplier in the tool.

No. BLS collects straight-time gross pay and excludes overtime pay, shift differentials and year-end bonuses. An electrician with regular overtime earns more than the BLS annual figure for the same base rate.

No. The wage survey covers employees only. BLS says 7 percent of electricians are self-employed, and their income is not part of the percentiles on this page.

Yes. BLS projects 9 percent growth from 2025 to 2035, much faster than average, with about 72,700 openings each year.

• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Choose May 2025 and select 47-2111 Electricians for the national wage percentiles, mean wage, employment, and industry and state tables. Read 2026-10-02.
• BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Electricians (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Duties, entry education, training, median pay by industry and the 2025 to 2035 outlook. Read 2026-10-02.
• BLS OEWS frequently asked questions (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). Defines wages as straight-time gross pay without overtime, the 2,080 hour year and who the survey covers. Read 2026-10-02.
• Overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division). Time and one-half the regular rate after 40 hours in a workweek for covered, nonexempt employees. Read 2026-10-02.