Do electricians make more in Bellingham or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $97,590 in Bellingham and $105,090 in Portland, a 7% difference.

Electrician salary in Bellingham, WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Bellingham, WA area earn a median of $97,590 a year, or $46.92 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $127,180. That's 2% more than the Washington median of $95,220.

Median yearly pay$97,590

Bottom 10% under$57,530Top 10% over$127,180

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $27.66/hr
Jobs in this area: 560
After cost of living: $94,440
Median hourly pay: $46.92/hr
vs U.S. median: +54%
vs Washington median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $93,760 a year · $45.08 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13380, Bellingham, WA). 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 Bellingham, WA 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	$27.66	$57,530
25th percentile	$33.38	$69,430
Median (50th)	$46.92	$97,590
75th percentile	$60.08	$124,960
90th percentile	$61.15	$127,180

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

How Bellingham, WA compares

Bellingham ranks 5th of 13 Washington metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Bellingham area than nationally: 6.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Washington metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Bellingham or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $97,590 in Bellingham and $105,090 in Portland, 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 13380 (Bellingham, WA). 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 (103.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures