Do electricians make more in Minot or Fargo?

Fargo pays more: the median is $59,800 in Minot and $76,950 in Fargo, a 22% difference.

Electrician salary in Minot, ND

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Minot, ND area earn a median of $59,800 a year, or $28.75 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $96,830. Across all of North Dakota, the median is $65,710, so Minot pays 9% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$59,800

Bottom 10% under$45,700Top 10% over$96,830

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.97/hr
Jobs in this area: 340
After cost of living: $68,710
Median hourly pay: $28.75/hr
vs U.S. median: −5%
vs North Dakota median: −9%
Mean (average) pay: $67,180 a year · $32.30 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33500, Minot, ND). 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 Minot, ND 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	$21.97	$45,700
25th percentile	$24.50	$50,950
Median (50th)	$28.75	$59,800
75th percentile	$37.39	$77,770
90th percentile	$46.55	$96,830

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

How Minot, ND compares

Minot has the lowest electrician median of the 4 North Dakota metro areas with published pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Minot area than nationally: 10.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.1 times the U.S. share.

Other North Dakota metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Minot or Fargo?: Fargo pays more: the median is $59,800 in Minot and $76,950 in Fargo, a 22% 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 33500 (Minot, ND). 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 (87.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures