Do electricians make more in Portland or Albany?

Portland pays more: the median is $105,090 in Portland and $100,230 in Albany, a 5% difference.

Electrician salary in Portland, OR-WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR-WA area earn a median of $105,090 a year, or $50.53 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $134,380. Across all of Oregon, the median is $101,310, so Portland pays 4% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$105,090

Bottom 10% under$60,360Top 10% over$134,380

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $29.02/hr
Jobs in this area: 7,340
After cost of living: $99,690
Median hourly pay: $50.53/hr
vs U.S. median: +66%
vs Oregon median: +4%
Mean (average) pay: $103,030 a year · $49.53 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 38900, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA). 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 Portland, OR-WA 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	$29.02	$60,360
25th percentile	$37.95	$78,930
Median (50th)	$50.53	$105,090
75th percentile	$60.26	$125,330
90th percentile	$64.61	$134,380

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

How Portland, OR-WA compares

Portland has the highest electrician median of the 8 Oregon metro areas with published pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Portland area than nationally: 6.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Oregon metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Portland or Albany?: Portland pays more: the median is $105,090 in Portland and $100,230 in Albany, a 5% 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 38900 (Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA). 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 (105.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures