Do electricians make more in Missoula or Billings?

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

Electrician salary in Missoula, MT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Missoula, MT area earn a median of $79,250 a year, or $38.10 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $81,150. Across all of Montana, the median is $76,760, so Missoula pays 3% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$79,250

Bottom 10% under$49,240Top 10% over$81,150

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $23.67/hr
Jobs in this area: 280
After cost of living: $82,170
Median hourly pay: $38.10/hr
vs U.S. median: +25%
vs Montana median: +3%
Mean (average) pay: $71,570 a year · $34.41 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33540, Missoula, 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 Missoula, 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	$23.67	$49,240
25th percentile	$29.89	$62,180
Median (50th)	$38.10	$79,250
75th percentile	$38.51	$80,100
90th percentile	$39.01	$81,150

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

How Missoula, MT compares

Missoula ranks 2nd of 5 Montana metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Missoula area than nationally: 4.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.86 times the U.S. share.

Other Montana metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Missoula or Billings?: Billings pays more: the median is $79,250 in Missoula and $80,980 in Billings, 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 33540 (Missoula, 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 (96.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures