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Electrician salary in Wichita Falls, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Wichita Falls, TX area earn a median of $45,570 a year, or $21.91 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $79,930 a year. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $58,570; Wichita Falls is 22% below it.

Median yearly pay$45,570
Bottom 10% under$32,470Top 10% over$79,930
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$15.61/hr
Jobs in this area
190
After cost of living
$50,910
Median hourly pay
$21.91/hr
vs U.S. median
−28%
vs Texas median
−22%
Mean (average) pay
$51,800 a year · $24.91 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 48660, Wichita Falls, 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 Wichita Falls, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$15.61$32,470
25th percentile$17.95$37,340
Median (50th)$21.91$45,570
75th percentile$29.90$62,190
90th percentile$38.43$79,930

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

How Wichita Falls, TX compares

  • Wichita Falls has the lowest electrician median of the 25 Texas metro areas with published pay.
  • Electricians are less concentrated in the Wichita Falls area than nationally: 3.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.69 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

Other trades in Wichita Falls, TX

Questions

Do electricians make more in Wichita Falls or Beaumont?
Beaumont pays more: the median is $45,570 in Wichita Falls and $61,380 in Beaumont, a 26% 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 48660 (Wichita Falls, 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 (89.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures