Do electricians make more in Decatur or Mobile?

Decatur pays more: the median is $63,930 in Decatur and $61,720 in Mobile, a 4% difference.

Electrician salary in Decatur, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Decatur, AL area earn a median of $63,930 a year, or $30.74 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $133,180. That's 15% more than the Alabama median of $55,690.

Median yearly pay$63,930

Bottom 10% under$39,450Top 10% over$133,180

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.97/hr
Jobs in this area: 480
After cost of living: $73,300
Median hourly pay: $30.74/hr
vs U.S. median: +1%
vs Alabama median: +15%
Mean (average) pay: $75,040 a year · $36.08 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 19460, Decatur, 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 Decatur, 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	$18.97	$39,450
25th percentile	$24.38	$50,720
Median (50th)	$30.74	$63,930
75th percentile	$50.66	$105,370
90th percentile	$64.03	$133,180

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

How Decatur, AL compares

Decatur has the highest electrician median of the 13 Alabama metro areas with published pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Decatur area than nationally: 7.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.6 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Decatur or Mobile?: Decatur pays more: the median is $63,930 in Decatur and $61,720 in Mobile, a 4% 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 19460 (Decatur, 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 (87.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures