Do electricians make more in Weirton or Washington?

Washington pays more: the median is $68,810 in Weirton and $75,930 in Washington, a 9% difference.

Electrician salary in Weirton, WV-OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Weirton–Steubenville, WV-OH area earn a median of $68,810 a year, or $33.08 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $101,630 a year. Across all of West Virginia, the median is $64,810, so Weirton pays 6% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$68,810

Bottom 10% under$44,700Top 10% over$101,630

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.49/hr
Jobs in this area: 260
After cost of living: $77,290
Median hourly pay: $33.08/hr
vs U.S. median: +9%
vs West Virginia median: +6%
Mean (average) pay: $69,080 a year · $33.21 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 48260, Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH). 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 Weirton, WV-OH 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	$21.49	$44,700
25th percentile	$26.85	$55,850
Median (50th)	$33.08	$68,810
75th percentile	$37.11	$77,180
90th percentile	$48.86	$101,630

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

How Weirton, WV-OH compares

Weirton ranks 2nd of 10 West Virginia metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Weirton area than nationally: 7.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Weirton or Washington?: Washington pays more: the median is $68,810 in Weirton and $75,930 in Washington, a 9% 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 48260 (Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH). 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 (89.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures