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Electrician salary in Honolulu, HI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Urban Honolulu, HI area earn a median of $100,270 a year, or $48.21 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $124,040 a year. That's 4% more than the Hawaii median of $96,460.

Median yearly pay$100,270
Bottom 10% under$45,730Top 10% over$124,040
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$21.99/hr
Jobs in this area
2,290
After cost of living
$90,370
Median hourly pay
$48.21/hr
vs U.S. median
+59%
vs Hawaii median
+4%
Mean (average) pay
$94,570 a year · $45.47 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 46520, Urban Honolulu, HI). 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 Honolulu, HI 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$21.99$45,730
25th percentile$36.04$74,970
Median (50th)$48.21$100,270
75th percentile$58.05$120,740
90th percentile$59.64$124,040

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

How Honolulu, HI compares

  • Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Honolulu area as nationally: 5.1 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Hawaii metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Honolulu or Kahului?
Honolulu pays more: the median is $100,270 in Honolulu and $98,480 in Kahului, a 2% 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 46520 (Urban Honolulu, HI). 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 (111.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures