Do electricians make more in Topeka or St. Joseph?

St. Joseph pays more: the median is $65,520 in Topeka and $97,350 in St. Joseph, a 33% difference.

Electrician salary in Topeka, KS

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Topeka, KS area earn a median of $65,520 a year, or $31.50 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $82,100. Across all of Kansas, the median is $65,860, so Topeka pays 1% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$65,520

Bottom 10% under$47,590Top 10% over$82,100

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.88/hr
Jobs in this area: 510
After cost of living: $73,770
Median hourly pay: $31.50/hr
vs U.S. median: +4%
vs Kansas median: −1%
Mean (average) pay: $66,350 a year · $31.90 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45820, Topeka, KS). 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 Topeka, KS 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	$22.88	$47,590
25th percentile	$28.85	$60,010
Median (50th)	$31.50	$65,520
75th percentile	$38.73	$80,560
90th percentile	$39.47	$82,100

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

How Topeka, KS compares

Topeka ranks 5th of 7 Kansas metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Topeka area as nationally: 4.4 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Kansas metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Topeka or St. Joseph?: St. Joseph pays more: the median is $65,520 in Topeka and $97,350 in St. Joseph, a 33% 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 45820 (Topeka, KS). 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 (88.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures