Do electricians make more in Youngstown or Toledo?

Toledo pays more: the median is $59,570 in Youngstown and $74,710 in Toledo, a 20% difference.

Electrician salary in Youngstown, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Youngstown–Warren, OH area earn a median of $59,570 a year, or $28.64 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $90,300. Across all of Ohio, the median is $64,700, so Youngstown pays 8% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$59,570

Bottom 10% under$36,570Top 10% over$90,300

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.58/hr
Jobs in this area: 830
After cost of living: $68,160
Median hourly pay: $28.64/hr
vs U.S. median: −6%
vs Ohio median: −8%
Mean (average) pay: $61,870 a year · $29.75 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 49660, Youngstown-Warren, 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 Youngstown, 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	$17.58	$36,570
25th percentile	$22.13	$46,030
Median (50th)	$28.64	$59,570
75th percentile	$36.46	$75,830
90th percentile	$43.41	$90,300

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

How Youngstown, OH compares

Youngstown ranks 14th of 15 Ohio metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Youngstown area as nationally: 5.2 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Youngstown or Toledo?: Toledo pays more: the median is $59,570 in Youngstown and $74,710 in Toledo, a 20% 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 49660 (Youngstown-Warren, 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 (87.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures