Do electricians make more in Provo or Salt Lake City?

Salt Lake City pays more: the median is $60,860 in Provo and $62,620 in Salt Lake City, a 3% difference.

Electrician salary in Provo, UT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Provo–Orem–Lehi, UT area earn a median of $60,860 a year, or $29.26 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $88,320. That's 2% less than the Utah median of $62,000.

Median yearly pay$60,860

Bottom 10% under$38,020Top 10% over$88,320

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.28/hr
Jobs in this area: 2,080
After cost of living: $61,960
Median hourly pay: $29.26/hr
vs U.S. median: −4%
vs Utah median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $63,130 a year · $30.35 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39340, Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT). 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 Provo, UT 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	$18.28	$38,020
25th percentile	$22.89	$47,610
Median (50th)	$29.26	$60,860
75th percentile	$37.29	$77,570
90th percentile	$42.46	$88,320

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

How Provo, UT compares

Provo ranks 3rd of 5 Utah metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Provo area than nationally: 6.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Provo or Salt Lake City?: Salt Lake City pays more: the median is $60,860 in Provo and $62,620 in Salt Lake City, a 3% 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 39340 (Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT). 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 (98.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures