Do electricians make more in Canton or Toledo?

Toledo pays more: the median is $61,320 in Canton and $74,710 in Toledo, a 18% difference.

Electrician salary in Canton, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Canton–Massillon, OH area earn a median of $61,320 a year, or $29.48 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $80,560. Across all of Ohio, the median is $64,700, so Canton pays 5% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$61,320

Bottom 10% under$37,650Top 10% over$80,560

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.10/hr
Jobs in this area: 640
After cost of living: $68,590
Median hourly pay: $29.48/hr
vs U.S. median: −3%
vs Ohio median: −5%
Mean (average) pay: $62,620 a year · $30.11 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 15940, Canton-Massillon, 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 Canton, 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	$18.10	$37,650
25th percentile	$22.72	$47,250
Median (50th)	$29.48	$61,320
75th percentile	$38.11	$79,260
90th percentile	$38.73	$80,560

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

How Canton, OH compares

Canton ranks 12th of 15 Ohio metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Canton area than nationally: 3.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.81 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Canton or Toledo?: Toledo pays more: the median is $61,320 in Canton and $74,710 in Toledo, a 18% 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 15940 (Canton-Massillon, 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 (89.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures