Do electricians make more in Kingston or New York?

New York pays more: the median is $69,440 in Kingston and $79,020 in New York, a 12% difference.

Electrician salary in Kingston, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Kingston, NY area earn a median of $69,440 a year, or $33.38 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $104,400 a year. That's 12% less than the New York median of $78,750.

Median yearly pay$69,440

Bottom 10% under$44,980Top 10% over$104,400

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.63/hr
Jobs in this area: 280
After cost of living: $68,950
Median hourly pay: $33.38/hr
vs U.S. median: +10%
vs New York median: −12%
Mean (average) pay: $72,210 a year · $34.72 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 28740, Kingston, 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 Kingston, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$21.63	$44,980
25th percentile	$27.90	$58,020
Median (50th)	$33.38	$69,440
75th percentile	$37.58	$78,170
90th percentile	$50.19	$104,400

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

How Kingston, NY compares

Kingston ranks 11th of 12 New York metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Kingston area as nationally: 4.8 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Kingston or New York?: New York pays more: the median is $69,440 in Kingston and $79,020 in New York, a 12% 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 28740 (Kingston, 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 (100.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures