Do electricians make more in Dallas or Beaumont?

Beaumont pays more: the median is $59,010 in Dallas and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 4% difference.

Electrician salary in Dallas, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX area earn a median of $59,010 a year, or $28.37 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $81,660. That's 1% more than the Texas median of $58,570.

Median yearly pay$59,010

Bottom 10% under$38,740Top 10% over$81,660

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.63/hr
Jobs in this area: 20,930
After cost of living: $57,240
Median hourly pay: $28.37/hr
vs U.S. median: −7%
vs Texas median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $59,960 a year · $28.83 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 19100, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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 Dallas, 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	$18.63	$38,740
25th percentile	$22.85	$47,530
Median (50th)	$28.37	$59,010
75th percentile	$34.32	$71,390
90th percentile	$39.26	$81,660

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

How Dallas, TX compares

Dallas ranks 6th of 25 Texas metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Dallas area as nationally: 5.2 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Dallas or Beaumont?: Beaumont pays more: the median is $59,010 in Dallas and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 4% 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 19100 (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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 (103.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures