Do electricians make more in Billings or Missoula?

Billings pays more: the median is $80,980 in Billings and $79,250 in Missoula, a 2% difference.

Electrician salary in Billings, MT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Billings, MT area earn a median of $80,980 a year, or $38.93 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $92,080. That's 5% more than the Montana median of $76,760.

Median yearly pay$80,980

Bottom 10% under$49,940Top 10% over$92,080

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $24.01/hr
Jobs in this area: 510
After cost of living: $86,590
Median hourly pay: $38.93/hr
vs U.S. median: +28%
vs Montana median: +5%
Mean (average) pay: $76,160 a year · $36.62 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13740, Billings, MT). 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 Billings, MT 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	$24.01	$49,940
25th percentile	$30.62	$63,700
Median (50th)	$38.93	$80,980
75th percentile	$40.14	$83,500
90th percentile	$44.27	$92,080

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

How Billings, MT compares

Billings has the highest electrician median of the 5 Montana metro areas with published pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Billings area than nationally: 5.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Billings or Missoula?: Billings pays more: the median is $80,980 in Billings and $79,250 in Missoula, a 2% 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 13740 (Billings, MT). 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 (93.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures