Do electricians make more in Daphne or Mobile?

Mobile pays more: the median is $50,840 in Daphne and $61,720 in Mobile, a 18% difference.

Electrician salary in Daphne, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Daphne–Fairhope–Foley, AL area earn a median of $50,840 a year, or $24.44 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $71,150 a year. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $55,690; Daphne is 9% below it.

Median yearly pay$50,840

Bottom 10% under$38,160Top 10% over$71,150

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.35/hr
Jobs in this area: 410
After cost of living: $53,690
Median hourly pay: $24.44/hr
vs U.S. median: −20%
vs Alabama median: −9%
Mean (average) pay: $54,220 a year · $26.07 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 19300, Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL). Excludes self-employed electricians. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What electricians in Daphne, AL earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$18.35	$38,160
25th percentile	$21.78	$45,300
Median (50th)	$24.44	$50,840
75th percentile	$30.42	$63,280
90th percentile	$34.21	$71,150

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Daphne, AL compares

Daphne ranks 9th of 13 Alabama metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Daphne area as nationally: 4.7 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Daphne or Mobile?: Mobile pays more: the median is $50,840 in Daphne and $61,720 in Mobile, a 18% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2111 (Electricians), area code 19300 (Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed electricians and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (94.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures