Do electricians make more in Houston or Beaumont?

Beaumont pays more: the median is $59,180 in Houston and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 4% difference.

Electrician salary in Houston, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands, TX area earn a median of $59,180 a year, or $28.45 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $84,470. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $58,570; Houston is 1% above it.

Median yearly pay$59,180

Bottom 10% under$38,800Top 10% over$84,470

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.66/hr
Jobs in this area: 19,730
After cost of living: $60,000
Median hourly pay: $28.45/hr
vs U.S. median: −6%
vs Texas median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $61,470 a year · $29.55 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 26420, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 Houston, 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	$18.66	$38,800
25th percentile	$22.71	$47,240
Median (50th)	$28.45	$59,180
75th percentile	$35.44	$73,710
90th percentile	$40.61	$84,470

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

How Houston, TX compares

Houston ranks 5th of 25 Texas metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Houston area than nationally: 6.0 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 Houston or Beaumont?: Beaumont pays more: the median is $59,180 in Houston 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 26420 (Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 (98.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures