Do electricians make more in Punta Gorda or Miami?

Miami pays more: the median is $57,860 in Punta Gorda and $58,630 in Miami, a 1% difference.

Electrician salary in Punta Gorda, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Punta Gorda, FL area earn a median of $57,860 a year, or $27.82 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $71,750. That's 1% more than the Florida median of $57,250.

Median yearly pay$57,860

Bottom 10% under$37,300Top 10% over$71,750

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.93/hr
Jobs in this area: 260
After cost of living: $57,560
Median hourly pay: $27.82/hr
vs U.S. median: −8%
vs Florida median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $55,470 a year · $26.67 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39460, Punta Gorda, 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 Punta Gorda, 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	$17.93	$37,300
25th percentile	$22.76	$47,350
Median (50th)	$27.82	$57,860
75th percentile	$29.19	$60,720
90th percentile	$34.50	$71,750

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

How Punta Gorda, FL compares

Punta Gorda ranks 7th of 22 Florida metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Punta Gorda area as nationally: 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Punta Gorda or Miami?: Miami pays more: the median is $57,860 in Punta Gorda 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 39460 (Punta Gorda, 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 (100.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures