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Electrician salary in Binghamton, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Binghamton, NY area earn a median of $76,670 a year, or $36.86 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $103,340 a year. Across all of New York, the median is $78,750, so Binghamton pays 3% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$76,670
Bottom 10% under$39,850Top 10% over$103,340
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$19.16/hr
Jobs in this area
390
After cost of living
$82,560
Median hourly pay
$36.86/hr
vs U.S. median
+21%
vs New York median
−3%
Mean (average) pay
$75,930 a year · $36.50 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13780, Binghamton, NY). 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 Binghamton, NY 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$19.16$39,850
25th percentile$27.62$57,450
Median (50th)$36.86$76,670
75th percentile$46.00$95,690
90th percentile$49.68$103,340

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

How Binghamton, NY compares

  • Binghamton ranks 7th of 12 New York metro areas for electrician pay.
  • Electricians are less concentrated in the Binghamton area than nationally: 4.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.83 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Binghamton or New York?
New York pays more: the median is $76,670 in Binghamton and $79,020 in New York, 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 13780 (Binghamton, NY). 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 (92.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures