Do electricians make more in Bozeman or Billings?

Billings pays more: the median is $78,230 in Bozeman and $80,980 in Billings, a 3% difference.

Electrician salary in Bozeman, MT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Bozeman, MT area earn a median of $78,230 a year, or $37.61 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $92,150 a year. Across all of Montana, the median is $76,760, so Bozeman pays 2% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$78,230

Bottom 10% under$51,770Top 10% over$92,150

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $24.89/hr
Jobs in this area: 440
After cost of living: $76,310
Median hourly pay: $37.61/hr
vs U.S. median: +24%
vs Montana median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $74,590 a year · $35.86 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 14580, Bozeman, 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 Bozeman, 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	$24.89	$51,770
25th percentile	$29.76	$61,900
Median (50th)	$37.61	$78,230
75th percentile	$41.72	$86,780
90th percentile	$44.31	$92,150

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

How Bozeman, MT compares

Bozeman ranks 4th of 5 Montana metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Bozeman area than nationally: 6.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Bozeman or Billings?: Billings pays more: the median is $78,230 in Bozeman and $80,980 in Billings, 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 14580 (Bozeman, 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 (102.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures