Do electricians make more in Fond du Lac or Minneapolis?

Minneapolis pays more: the median is $77,060 in Fond du Lac and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 6% difference.

Electrician salary in Fond du Lac, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Fond du Lac, WI area earn a median of $77,060 a year, or $37.05 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $116,610. Statewide, electricians earn a median of $76,540; Fond du Lac is 1% above it.

Median yearly pay$77,060

Bottom 10% under$45,290Top 10% over$116,610

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.78/hr
Jobs in this area: 170
After cost of living: $84,090
Median hourly pay: $37.05/hr
vs U.S. median: +22%
vs Wisconsin median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $74,330 a year · $35.74 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 22540, Fond du Lac, WI). 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 Fond du Lac, WI 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	$21.78	$45,290
25th percentile	$26.89	$55,930
Median (50th)	$37.05	$77,060
75th percentile	$42.93	$89,300
90th percentile	$56.06	$116,610

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

How Fond du Lac, WI compares

Fond du Lac ranks 12th of 15 Wisconsin metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Fond du Lac area than nationally: 3.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.77 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Fond du Lac or Minneapolis?: Minneapolis pays more: the median is $77,060 in Fond du Lac and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 6% 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 22540 (Fond du Lac, WI). 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 (91.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures