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Electrician salary in Niles, MI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Niles, MI area earn a median of $64,060 a year, or $30.80 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $107,660. Across all of Michigan, the median is $76,270, so Niles pays 16% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$64,060
Bottom 10% under$40,220Top 10% over$107,660
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$19.34/hr
Jobs in this area
240
After cost of living
$69,350
Median hourly pay
$30.80/hr
vs U.S. median
+1%
vs Michigan median
−16%
Mean (average) pay
$70,740 a year · $34.01 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 35660, Niles, MI). 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 Niles, MI 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$19.34$40,220
25th percentile$22.67$47,160
Median (50th)$30.80$64,060
75th percentile$38.73$80,560
90th percentile$51.76$107,660

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

How Niles, MI compares

  • Niles ranks 12th of 16 Michigan metro areas for electrician pay.
  • Electricians are less concentrated in the Niles area than nationally: 4.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.82 times the U.S. share.

Other Michigan metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Niles or Detroit?
Detroit pays more: the median is $64,060 in Niles and $81,990 in Detroit, 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 35660 (Niles, MI). 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 (92.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures