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Electrician salary in Norwich, CT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Norwich–New London–Willimantic, CT area earn a median of $72,240 a year, or $34.73 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $97,040. That's 7% less than the Connecticut median of $77,540.

Median yearly pay$72,240
Bottom 10% under$47,970Top 10% over$97,040
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$23.06/hr
Jobs in this area
700
After cost of living
$71,920
Median hourly pay
$34.73/hr
vs U.S. median
+14%
vs Connecticut median
−7%
Mean (average) pay
$69,690 a year · $33.51 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 35980, Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT). 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 Norwich, CT 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$23.06$47,970
25th percentile$23.06$47,970
Median (50th)$34.73$72,240
75th percentile$37.83$78,690
90th percentile$46.65$97,040

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

How Norwich, CT compares

  • Norwich has the lowest electrician median of the 5 Connecticut metro areas with published pay.
  • Electricians are more concentrated in the Norwich area than nationally: 5.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Connecticut metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Norwich or Bridgeport?
Bridgeport pays more: the median is $72,240 in Norwich and $79,560 in Bridgeport, a 9% 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 35980 (Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT). 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 (100.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures