Do electricians make more in Mankato or Duluth?

Mankato pays more: the median is $83,120 in Mankato and $82,700 in Duluth, a 1% difference.

Electrician salary in Mankato, MN

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Mankato, MN area earn a median of $83,120 a year, or $39.96 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $100,770. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $78,160; Mankato is 6% above it.

Median yearly pay$83,120

Bottom 10% under$50,140Top 10% over$100,770

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $24.11/hr
Jobs in this area: 260
After cost of living: $91,390
Median hourly pay: $39.96/hr
vs U.S. median: +32%
vs Minnesota median: +6%
Mean (average) pay: $81,700 a year · $39.28 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31860, Mankato, MN). 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 Mankato, MN 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	$24.11	$50,140
25th percentile	$29.99	$62,370
Median (50th)	$39.96	$83,120
75th percentile	$48.30	$100,460
90th percentile	$48.45	$100,770

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

How Mankato, MN compares

Mankato has the highest electrician median of the 9 Minnesota metro areas with published pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Mankato area as nationally: 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Minnesota metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Mankato or Duluth?: Mankato pays more: the median is $83,120 in Mankato and $82,700 in Duluth, 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 31860 (Mankato, MN). 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 (91.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures