Do electricians make more in Vallejo or San Francisco?

San Francisco pays more: the median is $79,490 in Vallejo and $92,830 in San Francisco, a 14% difference.

Electrician salary in Vallejo, CA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Vallejo, CA area earn a median of $79,490 a year, or $38.22 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $142,240 a year. That's 4% more than the California median of $76,160.

Median yearly pay$79,490

Bottom 10% under$48,860Top 10% over$142,240

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $23.49/hr
Jobs in this area: 720
After cost of living: $73,280
Median hourly pay: $38.22/hr
vs U.S. median: +26%
vs California median: +4%
Mean (average) pay: $88,890 a year · $42.74 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 46700, Vallejo, 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 Vallejo, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$23.49	$48,860
25th percentile	$29.75	$61,870
Median (50th)	$38.22	$79,490
75th percentile	$50.32	$104,660
90th percentile	$68.39	$142,240

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

How Vallejo, CA compares

Vallejo ranks 4th of 25 California metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Vallejo area as nationally: 5.0 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Vallejo or San Francisco?: San Francisco pays more: the median is $79,490 in Vallejo and $92,830 in San Francisco, a 14% 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 46700 (Vallejo, 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 (108.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures