Electrician salary in Tulsa, OK
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Electricians in the Tulsa, OK area earn a median of $62,280 a year, or $29.94 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $94,890 a year. That's 2% more than the Oklahoma median of $61,010.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $18.67/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 2,750
- After cost of living
- $69,810
- Median hourly pay
- $29.94/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −1%
- vs Oklahoma median
- +2%
- Mean (average) pay
- $65,510 a year · $31.50 an hour
Pay by percentile
What electricians in Tulsa, OK 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 | $18.67 | $38,820 |
| 25th percentile | $23.40 | $48,660 |
| Median (50th) | $29.94 | $62,280 |
| 75th percentile | $37.18 | $77,340 |
| 90th percentile | $45.62 | $94,890 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Tulsa, OK compares
- Tulsa has the highest electrician median of the 5 Oklahoma metro areas with published pay.
- Electricians are more concentrated in the Tulsa area than nationally: 6.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.
Other Oklahoma metro areas
Other trades in Tulsa, OK
Questions
- Do electricians make more in Tulsa or Oklahoma City?
- Tulsa pays more: the median is $62,280 in Tulsa and $61,010 in Oklahoma City, a 2% 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 46140 (Tulsa, OK). 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 (89.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures