Do electricians make more in Killeen or Beaumont?

Beaumont pays more: the median is $49,660 in Killeen and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 19% difference.

Electrician salary in Killeen, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Killeen–Temple, TX area earn a median of $49,660 a year, or $23.88 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $75,360. That's 15% less than the Texas median of $58,570.

Median yearly pay$49,660

Bottom 10% under$36,880Top 10% over$75,360

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.73/hr
Jobs in this area: 550
After cost of living: $54,490
Median hourly pay: $23.88/hr
vs U.S. median: −21%
vs Texas median: −15%
Mean (average) pay: $54,080 a year · $26.00 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 28660, Killeen-Temple, 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 Killeen, 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	$17.73	$36,880
25th percentile	$20.14	$41,890
Median (50th)	$23.88	$49,660
75th percentile	$29.84	$62,070
90th percentile	$36.23	$75,360

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

How Killeen, TX compares

Killeen ranks 14th of 25 Texas metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Killeen area than nationally: 3.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.75 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Killeen or Beaumont?: Beaumont pays more: the median is $49,660 in Killeen and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 19% 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 28660 (Killeen-Temple, 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 (91.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures