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Electrician salary in Jacksonville, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Jacksonville, FL area earn a median of $58,280 a year, or $28.02 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $77,200 a year. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $57,250; Jacksonville is 2% above it.

Median yearly pay$58,280
Bottom 10% under$38,080Top 10% over$77,200
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.31/hr
Jobs in this area
4,990
After cost of living
$58,580
Median hourly pay
$28.02/hr
vs U.S. median
−8%
vs Florida median
+2%
Mean (average) pay
$57,840 a year · $27.81 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 27260, Jacksonville, FL). 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 Jacksonville, FL 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$18.31$38,080
25th percentile$22.90$47,620
Median (50th)$28.02$58,280
75th percentile$29.54$61,440
90th percentile$37.12$77,200

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

How Jacksonville, FL compares

  • Jacksonville ranks 5th of 22 Florida metro areas for electrician pay.
  • Electricians are more concentrated in the Jacksonville area than nationally: 6.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

Other trades in Jacksonville, FL

Questions

Do electricians make more in Jacksonville or Miami?
Miami pays more: the median is $58,280 in Jacksonville and $58,630 in Miami, a 1% 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 27260 (Jacksonville, FL). 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 (99.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures