Do electricians make more in Odessa or Beaumont?

Beaumont pays more: the median is $57,110 in Odessa and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 7% difference.

Electrician salary in Odessa, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Odessa, TX area earn a median of $57,110 a year, or $27.46 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $75,150. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $58,570; Odessa is 2% below it.

Median yearly pay$57,110

Bottom 10% under$41,690Top 10% over$75,150

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.04/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,030
After cost of living: $60,820
Median hourly pay: $27.46/hr
vs U.S. median: −10%
vs Texas median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $58,060 a year · $27.91 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36220, Odessa, 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 Odessa, 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	$20.04	$41,690
25th percentile	$23.88	$49,660
Median (50th)	$27.46	$57,110
75th percentile	$29.71	$61,790
90th percentile	$36.13	$75,150

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

How Odessa, TX compares

Odessa ranks 9th of 25 Texas metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Odessa area than nationally: 12.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.6 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Odessa or Beaumont?: Beaumont pays more: the median is $57,110 in Odessa and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 7% 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 36220 (Odessa, 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 (93.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures