Do electricians make more in Medford or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $92,410 in Medford and $105,090 in Portland, a 12% difference.

Electrician salary in Medford, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Medford, OR area earn a median of $92,410 a year, or $44.43 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $119,390 a year. That's 9% less than the Oregon median of $101,310.

Median yearly pay$92,410

Bottom 10% under$53,460Top 10% over$119,390

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $25.70/hr
Jobs in this area: 500
After cost of living: $91,100
Median hourly pay: $44.43/hr
vs U.S. median: +46%
vs Oregon median: −9%
Mean (average) pay: $88,160 a year · $42.39 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 32780, Medford, OR). 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 Medford, OR 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	$25.70	$53,460
25th percentile	$34.62	$72,000
Median (50th)	$44.43	$92,410
75th percentile	$51.02	$106,120
90th percentile	$57.40	$119,390

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

How Medford, OR compares

Medford ranks 7th of 8 Oregon metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Medford area than nationally: 5.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Medford or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $92,410 in Medford and $105,090 in Portland, a 12% 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 32780 (Medford, OR). 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 (101.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures