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Electrician salary in Gulfport, MS

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Gulfport–Biloxi, MS area earn a median of $62,440 a year, or $30.02 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $69,620 a year. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $60,860; Gulfport is 3% above it.

Median yearly pay$62,440
Bottom 10% under$47,380Top 10% over$69,620
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$22.78/hr
Jobs in this area
2,010
After cost of living
$69,370
Median hourly pay
$30.02/hr
vs U.S. median
−1%
vs Mississippi median
+3%
Mean (average) pay
$60,570 a year · $29.12 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 25060, Gulfport-Biloxi, MS). 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 Gulfport, MS 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$22.78$47,380
25th percentile$28.41$59,090
Median (50th)$30.02$62,440
75th percentile$30.02$62,440
90th percentile$33.47$69,620

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

How Gulfport, MS compares

  • Gulfport has the highest electrician median of the 4 Mississippi metro areas with published pay.
  • Electricians are more concentrated in the Gulfport area than nationally: 12.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.6 times the U.S. share.

Other Mississippi metro areas

Other trades in Gulfport, MS

Questions

Do electricians make more in Gulfport or Memphis?
Gulfport pays more: the median is $62,440 in Gulfport and $60,890 in Memphis, a 3% 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 25060 (Gulfport-Biloxi, MS). 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 (90.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures