Do electricians make more in Wichita or St. Joseph?

St. Joseph pays more: the median is $65,670 in Wichita and $97,350 in St. Joseph, a 33% difference.

Electrician salary in Wichita, KS

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Wichita, KS area earn a median of $65,670 a year, or $31.57 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $96,830 a year. That's about the same as the Kansas median of $65,860.

Median yearly pay$65,670

Bottom 10% under$38,700Top 10% over$96,830

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.61/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,610
After cost of living: $73,830
Median hourly pay: $31.57/hr
vs U.S. median: +4%
vs Kansas median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $68,250 a year · $32.81 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 48620, Wichita, 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 Wichita, 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	$18.61	$38,700
25th percentile	$25.07	$52,140
Median (50th)	$31.57	$65,670
75th percentile	$38.48	$80,030
90th percentile	$46.55	$96,830

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

How Wichita, KS compares

Wichita ranks 4th of 7 Kansas metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Wichita area as nationally: 5.2 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Kansas metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Wichita or St. Joseph?: St. Joseph pays more: the median is $65,670 in Wichita 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 48620 (Wichita, 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 (88.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures