Do electricians make more in Rochester or Duluth?

Duluth pays more: the median is $79,650 in Rochester and $82,700 in Duluth, a 4% difference.

Electrician salary in Rochester, MN

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Rochester, MN area earn a median of $79,650 a year, or $38.29 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $118,080. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $78,160; Rochester is 2% above it.

Median yearly pay$79,650

Bottom 10% under$46,090Top 10% over$118,080

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.16/hr
Jobs in this area: 510
After cost of living: $87,700
Median hourly pay: $38.29/hr
vs U.S. median: +26%
vs Minnesota median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $80,850 a year · $38.87 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 40340, Rochester, 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 Rochester, 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	$22.16	$46,090
25th percentile	$28.61	$59,510
Median (50th)	$38.29	$79,650
75th percentile	$48.76	$101,410
90th percentile	$56.77	$118,080

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

How Rochester, MN compares

Rochester ranks 5th of 9 Minnesota metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Rochester area than nationally: 4.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.85 times the U.S. share.

Other Minnesota metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Rochester or Duluth?: Duluth pays more: the median is $79,650 in Rochester and $82,700 in Duluth, a 4% 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 40340 (Rochester, 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 (90.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures