Do electricians make more in Macon or Chattanooga?

Chattanooga pays more: the median is $54,320 in Macon and $72,330 in Chattanooga, a 25% difference.

Electrician salary in Macon, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Macon–Bibb County, GA area earn a median of $54,320 a year, or $26.11 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $83,560. That's 7% less than the Georgia median of $58,320.

Median yearly pay$54,320

Bottom 10% under$33,710Top 10% over$83,560

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $16.21/hr
Jobs in this area: 380
After cost of living: $61,360
Median hourly pay: $26.11/hr
vs U.S. median: −14%
vs Georgia median: −7%
Mean (average) pay: $57,270 a year · $27.53 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31420, Macon-Bibb County, 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 Macon, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$16.21	$33,710
25th percentile	$20.16	$41,920
Median (50th)	$26.11	$54,320
75th percentile	$34.06	$70,840
90th percentile	$40.17	$83,560

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

How Macon, GA compares

Macon ranks 11th of 15 Georgia metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Macon area than nationally: 4.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.82 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Macon or Chattanooga?: Chattanooga pays more: the median is $54,320 in Macon and $72,330 in Chattanooga, a 25% 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 31420 (Macon-Bibb County, 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 (88.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures