Do electricians make more in Baltimore or Washington?

Washington pays more: the median is $65,590 in Baltimore and $75,930 in Washington, a 14% difference.

Electrician salary in Baltimore, MD

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson, MD area earn a median of $65,590 a year, or $31.54 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $113,090. That's 11% less than the Maryland median of $73,490.

Median yearly pay$65,590

Bottom 10% under$45,390Top 10% over$113,090

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.82/hr
Jobs in this area: 6,930
After cost of living: $62,770
Median hourly pay: $31.54/hr
vs U.S. median: +4%
vs Maryland median: −11%
Mean (average) pay: $72,790 a year · $35.00 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12580, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD). 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 Baltimore, MD 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	$21.82	$45,390
25th percentile	$26.96	$56,080
Median (50th)	$31.54	$65,590
75th percentile	$44.20	$91,930
90th percentile	$54.37	$113,090

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

How Baltimore, MD compares

Baltimore ranks 3rd of 6 Maryland metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Baltimore area as nationally: 5.1 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Maryland metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Baltimore or Washington?: Washington pays more: the median is $65,590 in Baltimore and $75,930 in Washington, a 14% 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 12580 (Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD). 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 (104.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures