Do electricians make more in Akron or Toledo?

Akron pays more: the median is $77,360 in Akron and $74,710 in Toledo, a 4% difference.

Electrician salary in Akron, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Akron, OH area earn a median of $77,360 a year, or $37.19 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $123,170. Across all of Ohio, the median is $64,700, so Akron pays 20% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$77,360

Bottom 10% under$46,360Top 10% over$123,170

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.29/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,360
After cost of living: $82,850
Median hourly pay: $37.19/hr
vs U.S. median: +22%
vs Ohio median: +20%
Mean (average) pay: $79,720 a year · $38.33 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 10420, Akron, OH). 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 Akron, OH 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	$22.29	$46,360
25th percentile	$28.73	$59,750
Median (50th)	$37.19	$77,360
75th percentile	$48.37	$100,610
90th percentile	$59.22	$123,170

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

How Akron, OH compares

Akron has the highest electrician median of the 15 Ohio metro areas with published pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Akron area than nationally: 4.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.88 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Akron or Toledo?: Akron pays more: the median is $77,360 in Akron and $74,710 in Toledo, a 4% 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 10420 (Akron, OH). 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 (93.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures