Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
What the pay figures show
- Hawaii pays this job the most on paper: $134,340. Two things happen before that money is yours. State tax takes a share, which puts Washington in front. Then local prices decide what is left, and Idaho wins at $99,743. The best offer and the best deal are not the same place.
- For electrical power-line installers and repairers, Hawaii's $134,340 median leads nominally and survives neither adjustment. State income tax differentials alone are sufficient to promote Washington; regional price parity then promotes Idaho, whose $99,743 real figure is the highest purchasing power available in this occupation. Nominal wage comparisons across states are therefore a poor guide to relocation, and the error compounds rather than cancels.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$95,320
People doing it
131,070
Highest paid
$134,340
HI
Best off, really
$99,743
ID, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$51,470
Highest tenth
$128,690
Lowest, really
$58,629
VA
States with data
51
National average
$91,970
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
91.42%
ID, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $58,629 and $99,743. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Roughly 131,070 people hold this job nationally, earning $95,320 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- Coverage is complete — all 51 jurisdictions publish this, on a middle wage of $95,320. Nothing is missing.
- Wages for electrical power-line installers and repairers cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $58,629 to $99,743. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- 131,070 are employed nationally in electrical power-line installers and repairers, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- Coverage for electrical power-line installers and repairers is complete at 51 jurisdictions. No suppression applies, so the highest and lowest figures above are genuinely the national extremes.
Pay band: Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $95,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $128,690 |
| This salary | $95,320 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
The national median for this job
$95,320around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $51,470 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $95,320 |
| Top tenth | $128,690 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arizona · $75,420 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Hawaii · $134,340 |
| Spread | $58,920 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $78,940 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $81,235 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | $125,410 | $91,190 | $99,743 |
| WA | $133,060 | $102,213 | $94,151 |
| ND | $105,870 | $82,504 | $93,149 |
| MT | $110,320 | $81,568 | $90,386 |
| CT | $126,850 | $91,607 | $88,348 |
| SD | $97,310 | $77,288 | $87,732 |
| HI | $134,340 | $94,306 | $86,831 |
| OR | $131,090 | $89,907 | $85,854 |
| IA | $100,200 | $76,125 | $85,758 |
| MI | $106,890 | $79,735 | $84,659 |
| WI | $105,820 | $78,447 | $84,264 |
| IN | $102,040 | $77,634 | $84,217 |
| KS | $101,620 | $74,938 | $83,297 |
| VT | $108,520 | $80,122 | $82,912 |
| WY | $93,860 | $74,861 | $82,402 |
| PA | $106,230 | $80,302 | $82,361 |
| NY | $121,280 | $87,880 | $81,653 |
| NJ | $121,580 | $88,807 | $81,562 |
| CA | $129,040 | $91,556 | $81,325 |
| IL | $108,120 | $79,685 | $80,608 |
| MO | $96,360 | $73,028 | $79,584 |
| UT | $101,220 | $75,534 | $79,508 |
| NV | $96,560 | $76,760 | $79,150 |
| OH | $93,150 | $72,516 | $78,983 |
| MN | $104,180 | $76,560 | $77,791 |
| RI | $104,620 | $78,813 | $77,716 |
| NE | $92,150 | $70,168 | $77,640 |
| AL | $92,030 | $69,707 | $77,479 |
| CO | $103,980 | $78,113 | $77,048 |
| NH | $102,170 | $80,707 | $76,612 |
| MD | $106,090 | $78,710 | $75,708 |
| MA | $110,210 | $81,172 | $74,994 |
| AR | $81,450 | $63,575 | $73,490 |
| TN | $83,660 | $67,685 | $73,161 |
| AK | $92,470 | $73,883 | $72,637 |
| DE | $97,180 | $72,013 | $72,555 |
| WV | $83,810 | $64,841 | $72,228 |
| LA | $76,410 | $60,678 | $68,683 |
| MS | $75,890 | $59,275 | $67,904 |
| FL | $86,870 | $69,943 | $67,609 |
| OK | $76,010 | $59,383 | $67,262 |
| DC | $101,240 | $74,415 | $67,160 |
| KY | $77,020 | $60,435 | $66,803 |
| NM | $76,470 | $60,198 | $66,601 |
| TX | $78,940 | $64,364 | $66,235 |
| ME | $83,090 | $62,985 | $64,868 |
| SC | $76,870 | $60,127 | $64,530 |
| NC | $77,270 | $60,615 | $64,389 |
| GA | $80,080 | $61,769 | $63,878 |
| AZ | $75,420 | $60,405 | $59,745 |
| VA | $76,590 | $59,068 | $58,629 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $95,320, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Washington, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $102,213.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Virginia, on $58,629.
- These are distribution medians for electrical power-line installers and repairers, with a national value of $95,320. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Take-home calculations for electrical power-line installers and repairers assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $102,213, in Washington. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- Real-terms results for electrical power-line installers and repairers rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Virginia anchors the distribution at $58,629. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.