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Electrician salary in Brunswick, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Brunswick–St. Simons, GA area earn a median of $58,880 a year, or $28.31 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $97,010 a year. That's 1% more than the Georgia median of $58,320.

Median yearly pay$58,880
Bottom 10% under$37,680Top 10% over$97,010
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.11/hr
Jobs in this area
140
After cost of living
$67,130
Median hourly pay
$28.31/hr
vs U.S. median
−7%
vs Georgia median
+1%
Mean (average) pay
$62,630 a year · $30.11 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 15260, Brunswick-St. Simons, GA). 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 Brunswick, GA 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$18.11$37,680
25th percentile$22.94$47,710
Median (50th)$28.31$58,880
75th percentile$36.69$76,320
90th percentile$46.64$97,010

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

How Brunswick, GA compares

  • Brunswick ranks 5th of 15 Georgia metro areas for electrician pay.
  • Electricians are less concentrated in the Brunswick area than nationally: 3.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.61 times the U.S. share.

Other Georgia metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Brunswick or Chattanooga?
Chattanooga pays more: the median is $58,880 in Brunswick and $72,330 in Chattanooga, 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 15260 (Brunswick-St. Simons, GA). 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 (87.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures