Do electricians make more in Austin or Beaumont?

Beaumont pays more: the median is $60,390 in Austin and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 2% difference.

Electrician salary in Austin, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos, TX area earn a median of $60,390 a year, or $29.03 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $78,820. That's 3% more than the Texas median of $58,570.

Median yearly pay$60,390

Bottom 10% under$39,260Top 10% over$78,820

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.87/hr
Jobs in this area: 7,340
After cost of living: $61,580
Median hourly pay: $29.03/hr
vs U.S. median: −4%
vs Texas median: +3%
Mean (average) pay: $60,850 a year · $29.25 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12420, Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX). 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 Austin, TX 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	$18.87	$39,260
25th percentile	$22.97	$47,780
Median (50th)	$29.03	$60,390
75th percentile	$35.25	$73,310
90th percentile	$37.90	$78,820

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

How Austin, TX compares

Austin ranks 2nd of 25 Texas metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Austin area than nationally: 5.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Austin or Beaumont?: Beaumont pays more: the median is $60,390 in Austin and $61,380 in Beaumont, 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 12420 (Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX). 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 (98.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures