Do electricians make more in Bangor or Lewiston?

Lewiston pays more: the median is $63,390 in Bangor and $78,430 in Lewiston, a 19% difference.

Electrician salary in Bangor, ME

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Bangor, ME area earn a median of $63,390 a year, or $30.48 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $92,740 a year. That's 16% less than the Maine median of $75,380.

Median yearly pay$63,390

Bottom 10% under$51,530Top 10% over$92,740

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $24.78/hr
Jobs in this area: 210
After cost of living: $65,680
Median hourly pay: $30.48/hr
vs U.S. median: 0%
vs Maine median: −16%
Mean (average) pay: $70,020 a year · $33.66 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12620, Bangor, ME). 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 Bangor, ME 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	$24.78	$51,530
25th percentile	$28.34	$58,940
Median (50th)	$30.48	$63,390
75th percentile	$37.62	$78,260
90th percentile	$44.59	$92,740

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

How Bangor, ME compares

Bangor has the lowest electrician median of the 3 Maine metro areas with published pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Bangor area than nationally: 2.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.59 times the U.S. share.

Other Maine metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Bangor or Lewiston?: Lewiston pays more: the median is $63,390 in Bangor and $78,430 in Lewiston, 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 12620 (Bangor, ME). 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 (96.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures