Do electricians make more in Ocala or Miami?

Miami pays more: the median is $47,700 in Ocala and $58,630 in Miami, a 19% difference.

Electrician salary in Ocala, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Ocala, FL area earn a median of $47,700 a year, or $22.93 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $64,650. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $57,250; Ocala is 17% below it.

Median yearly pay$47,700

Bottom 10% under$35,570Top 10% over$64,650

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.10/hr
Jobs in this area: 670
After cost of living: $50,090
Median hourly pay: $22.93/hr
vs U.S. median: −25%
vs Florida median: −17%
Mean (average) pay: $50,760 a year · $24.40 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36100, Ocala, 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 Ocala, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$17.10	$35,570
25th percentile	$21.01	$43,700
Median (50th)	$22.93	$47,700
75th percentile	$27.45	$57,090
90th percentile	$31.08	$64,650

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

How Ocala, FL compares

Ocala has the lowest electrician median of the 22 Florida metro areas with published pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Ocala area than nationally: 5.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Ocala or Miami?: Miami pays more: the median is $47,700 in Ocala and $58,630 in Miami, a 19% 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 36100 (Ocala, 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 (95.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures