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Electrician salary in Texarkana, TX-AR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Texarkana, TX-AR area earn a median of $58,140 a year, or $27.95 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $72,990 a year. Across all of Texas, the median is $58,570, so Texarkana pays 1% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$58,140
Bottom 10% under$34,870Top 10% over$72,990
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$16.76/hr
Jobs in this area
390
After cost of living
$69,200
Median hourly pay
$27.95/hr
vs U.S. median
−8%
vs Texas median
−1%
Mean (average) pay
$56,300 a year · $27.07 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45500, Texarkana, TX-AR). 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 Texarkana, TX-AR 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$16.76$34,870
25th percentile$21.08$43,850
Median (50th)$27.95$58,140
75th percentile$35.09$72,990
90th percentile$35.09$72,990

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

How Texarkana, TX-AR compares

  • Texarkana ranks 7th of 25 Texas metro areas for electrician pay.
  • Electricians are more concentrated in the Texarkana area than nationally: 6.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Texarkana or Beaumont?
Beaumont pays more: the median is $58,140 in Texarkana and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 5% 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 45500 (Texarkana, TX-AR). 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 (84.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures