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Electrician salary in Redding, CA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Redding, CA area earn a median of $69,540 a year, or $33.43 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $134,800. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $76,160; Redding is 9% below it.

Median yearly pay$69,540
Bottom 10% under$46,460Top 10% over$134,800
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$22.34/hr
Jobs in this area
320
After cost of living
$69,070
Median hourly pay
$33.43/hr
vs U.S. median
+10%
vs California median
−9%
Mean (average) pay
$77,420 a year · $37.22 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39820, Redding, CA). 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 Redding, CA 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$22.34$46,460
25th percentile$27.78$57,780
Median (50th)$33.43$69,540
75th percentile$43.93$91,380
90th percentile$64.81$134,800

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

How Redding, CA compares

  • Redding ranks 21st of 25 California metro areas for electrician pay.
  • Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Redding area as nationally: 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other California metro areas

Other trades in Redding, CA

Questions

Do electricians make more in Redding or San Francisco?
San Francisco pays more: the median is $69,540 in Redding and $92,830 in San Francisco, a 25% 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 39820 (Redding, CA). 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 (100.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures