Helpers--Electricians
What the pay figures show
- Two answers for helpers--electricians. Best paid: Washington, at $61,110. Tax does not change that. Best off: Missouri, at $51,494 once local prices count. Tax was not what separated them. Rent was.
- Washington's $61,110 median for helpers--electricians survives the tax adjustment intact, so state income tax is not a differentiator in this occupation's geography. It does not survive price deflation: Missouri takes the top position at $51,494. Housing is where regional price variation concentrates, which is why the reordering appears at this step and not the previous one.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$42,670
People doing it
63,630
Highest paid
$61,110
WA
Best off, really
$51,494
MO, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$33,020
Highest tenth
$58,340
Lowest, really
$28,513
NH
States with data
47
National average
$44,080
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
91.76%
MO, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- The state you work in changes what this job pays, but less than you would expect. Level out tax and prices and the whole country sits between $28,513 and $51,494. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- Just 63,630 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- Not every state reports this one. The figures here cover 47 jurisdictions, and the middle wage across them is $42,670. A state you do not see is one with no published number, not one paying nothing. Of those published, Washington pays most.
- Interstate variation for helpers--electricians is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $28,513 to $51,494. A differential of this magnitude is real but rarely decisive on its own, which is worth stating plainly against wage tables that present nominal gaps without either adjustment.
- 63,630 are employed nationally in helpers--electricians — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- BLS publishes an occupational median for helpers--electricians in 47 jurisdictions, short of the full set. ⚠️ Absence reflects estimate suppression — small samples or disclosure rules — rather than absence of employment, so the state comparison above is over the published subset.
Pay band: Helpers--Electricians
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,020 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,340 |
| This salary | $42,670 |
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 Helpers--Electricians
The national median for this job
$42,670around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $33,020 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $42,670 |
| Top tenth | $58,340 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Helpers--Electricians, state by state
The national median for this job
47states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $33,680 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $61,110 |
| Spread | $27,430 |
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 | $44,360 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $45,650 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | $58,340 | $47,252 | $51,494 |
| WA | $61,110 | $51,282 | $47,237 |
| CO | $56,420 | $45,739 | $45,116 |
| NM | $48,030 | $39,674 | $43,894 |
| CT | $56,020 | $44,861 | $43,265 |
| OK | $46,110 | $37,655 | $42,651 |
| WI | $47,230 | $38,654 | $41,521 |
| NE | $44,050 | $36,273 | $40,136 |
| KS | $44,990 | $36,108 | $40,135 |
| IA | $41,610 | $34,644 | $39,028 |
| TX | $44,360 | $37,823 | $38,923 |
| ME | $46,550 | $37,761 | $38,890 |
| KY | $42,790 | $35,182 | $38,889 |
| NV | $44,140 | $37,646 | $38,819 |
| MN | $46,750 | $38,061 | $38,673 |
| OH | $41,920 | $35,426 | $38,586 |
| MI | $44,240 | $36,097 | $38,326 |
| AR | $39,510 | $32,923 | $38,058 |
| CA | $52,080 | $42,709 | $37,936 |
| UT | $43,250 | $35,007 | $36,848 |
| TN | $39,710 | $34,087 | $36,845 |
| LA | $38,570 | $32,400 | $36,675 |
| OR | $49,800 | $38,387 | $36,656 |
| AZ | $44,110 | $36,922 | $36,519 |
| MA | $48,340 | $38,924 | $35,962 |
| VA | $44,530 | $36,160 | $35,891 |
| SC | $39,460 | $33,399 | $35,845 |
| ID | $39,480 | $32,663 | $35,727 |
| NY | $47,210 | $38,161 | $35,457 |
| DC | $48,300 | $39,257 | $35,429 |
| HI | $47,890 | $38,445 | $35,398 |
| IL | $43,290 | $34,965 | $35,370 |
| NC | $39,880 | $33,141 | $35,204 |
| SD | $35,620 | $30,801 | $34,963 |
| MD | $43,970 | $35,785 | $34,420 |
| NJ | $44,550 | $37,062 | $34,039 |
| MS | $35,680 | $29,514 | $33,810 |
| MT | $36,400 | $30,473 | $33,768 |
| GA | $39,030 | $32,192 | $33,291 |
| AL | $36,490 | $29,950 | $33,289 |
| PA | $38,880 | $32,226 | $33,053 |
| IN | $36,200 | $30,228 | $32,791 |
| VT | $37,910 | $31,627 | $32,728 |
| FL | $38,670 | $33,251 | $32,142 |
| WV | $33,680 | $28,398 | $31,634 |
| DE | $36,560 | $30,094 | $30,320 |
| NH | $34,670 | $30,037 | $28,513 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of helpers--electricians earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $42,670.
- Take-home figures for helpers--electricians 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 $51,282.
- The price adjustment for helpers--electricians uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — New Hampshire anchors the bottom at $28,513. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for helpers--electricians, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $42,670, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Take-home calculations for helpers--electricians 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 $51,282, 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 figures for helpers--electricians deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.