Do electricians make more in Salisbury or Washington?

Washington pays more: the median is $58,940 in Salisbury and $75,930 in Washington, a 22% difference.

Electrician salary in Salisbury, MD

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Salisbury, MD area earn a median of $58,940 a year, or $28.34 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $90,460. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $73,490; Salisbury is 20% below it.

Median yearly pay$58,940

Bottom 10% under$46,100Top 10% over$90,460

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.16/hr
Jobs in this area: 150
After cost of living: $61,640
Median hourly pay: $28.34/hr
vs U.S. median: −7%
vs Maryland median: −20%
Mean (average) pay: $64,660 a year · $31.09 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 41540, Salisbury, 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 Salisbury, 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	$22.16	$46,100
25th percentile	$23.48	$48,830
Median (50th)	$28.34	$58,940
75th percentile	$37.03	$77,020
90th percentile	$43.49	$90,460

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

How Salisbury, MD compares

Salisbury has the lowest electrician median of the 6 Maryland metro areas with published pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Salisbury area than nationally: 2.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.57 times the U.S. share.

Other Maryland metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Salisbury or Washington?: Washington pays more: the median is $58,940 in Salisbury and $75,930 in Washington, a 22% 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 41540 (Salisbury, 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 (95.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures