Do electricians make more in St. Cloud or Duluth?

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

Electrician salary in St. Cloud, MN

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the St. Cloud, MN area earn a median of $81,890 a year, or $39.37 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $103,540 a year. Across all of Minnesota, the median is $78,160, so St. Cloud pays 5% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$81,890

Bottom 10% under$47,860Top 10% over$103,540

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $23.01/hr
Jobs in this area: 730
After cost of living: $93,450
Median hourly pay: $39.37/hr
vs U.S. median: +30%
vs Minnesota median: +5%
Mean (average) pay: $80,770 a year · $38.83 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 41060, St. Cloud, 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 St. Cloud, 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	$23.01	$47,860
25th percentile	$29.40	$61,150
Median (50th)	$39.37	$81,890
75th percentile	$47.30	$98,380
90th percentile	$49.78	$103,540

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

How St. Cloud, MN compares

St. Cloud ranks 4th of 9 Minnesota metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the St. Cloud area than nationally: 7.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in St. Cloud or Duluth?: Duluth pays more: the median is $81,890 in St. Cloud 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 41060 (St. Cloud, 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 (87.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures