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Electrician salary in Myrtle Beach, SC

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Myrtle Beach–Conway–North Myrtle Beach, SC area earn a median of $51,200 a year, or $24.62 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $61,870 a year. That's 13% less than the South Carolina median of $58,740.

Median yearly pay$51,200
Bottom 10% under$43,110Top 10% over$61,870
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$20.72/hr
Jobs in this area
360
After cost of living
$54,680
Median hourly pay
$24.62/hr
vs U.S. median
−19%
vs South Carolina median
−13%
Mean (average) pay
$52,890 a year · $25.43 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 34820, Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC). 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 Myrtle Beach, SC 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$20.72$43,110
25th percentile$22.48$46,750
Median (50th)$24.62$51,200
75th percentile$28.41$59,090
90th percentile$29.75$61,870

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

How Myrtle Beach, SC compares

  • Myrtle Beach has the lowest electrician median of the 10 South Carolina metro areas with published pay.
  • Electricians are less concentrated in the Myrtle Beach area than nationally: 2.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.51 times the U.S. share.

Other South Carolina metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Myrtle Beach or Columbia?
Columbia pays more: the median is $51,200 in Myrtle Beach and $60,390 in Columbia, a 15% 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 34820 (Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC). 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 (93.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures