Do electricians make more in Duluth or Minneapolis?

Duluth pays more: the median is $82,700 in Duluth and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 1% difference.

Electrician salary in Duluth, MN-WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Duluth, MN-WI area earn a median of $82,700 a year, or $39.76 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $110,010. Across all of Minnesota, the median is $78,160, so Duluth pays 6% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$82,700

Bottom 10% under$47,060Top 10% over$110,010

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.62/hr
Jobs in this area: 680
After cost of living: $93,160
Median hourly pay: $39.76/hr
vs U.S. median: +31%
vs Minnesota median: +6%
Mean (average) pay: $80,590 a year · $38.75 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 20260, Duluth, MN-WI). 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 Duluth, MN-WI 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	$22.62	$47,060
25th percentile	$29.03	$60,380
Median (50th)	$39.76	$82,700
75th percentile	$46.53	$96,780
90th percentile	$52.89	$110,010

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

How Duluth, MN-WI compares

Duluth ranks 2nd of 9 Minnesota metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Duluth area than nationally: 5.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Duluth or Minneapolis?: Duluth pays more: the median is $82,700 in Duluth and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 1% 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 20260 (Duluth, MN-WI). 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 (88.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures