Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers offer sit among all 123,680 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 123,680 people in May 2024, 0.08% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 14,130 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.4% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Wyoming, whose location quotient of 2.26 says this work is 2.26 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $65,740 at the 25th percentile, $92,560 at the middle, $107,940 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $76,590, a ratio of 2.5 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Washington posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $125,710, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers stands number 239 by employment and number 156 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations, the group median wage is $59,300 across 51 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 56% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.0% of the group's 6,045,030 jobs. In 30 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $92,560, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 3,490 jobs, 2.8% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Tulsa, OK posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $67,340 a year, against $127,000 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $7,713 a month before tax, $3,560 biweekly, $1,780 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($65,740) to the 75th ($107,940) is worth $42,200 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $101,816 would sit between the median ($92,560) and the 75th percentile ($107,940), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $65,740, is $26,820 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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