Do electricians make more in Columbus or Akron?

Akron pays more: the median is $64,700 in Columbus and $77,360 in Akron, a 16% difference.

Electrician salary in Columbus, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Columbus, OH area earn a median of $64,700 a year, or $31.11 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $94,410. Across all of Ohio, the median is $64,700, so Columbus pays about the same as the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$64,700

Bottom 10% under$46,090Top 10% over$94,410

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.16/hr
Jobs in this area: 7,210
After cost of living: $67,770
Median hourly pay: $31.11/hr
vs U.S. median: +2%
vs Ohio median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $69,240 a year · $33.29 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 18140, Columbus, 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 Columbus, 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	$22.16	$46,090
25th percentile	$24.19	$50,300
Median (50th)	$31.11	$64,700
75th percentile	$38.45	$79,970
90th percentile	$45.39	$94,410

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

How Columbus, OH compares

Columbus ranks 7th of 15 Ohio metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Columbus area than nationally: 6.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Columbus or Akron?: Akron pays more: the median is $64,700 in Columbus and $77,360 in Akron, a 16% 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 18140 (Columbus, 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 (95.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures