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Electrician salary in Green Bay, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Green Bay, WI area earn a median of $77,260 a year, or $37.15 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $97,380 a year. Across all of Wisconsin, the median is $76,540, so Green Bay pays 1% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$77,260
Bottom 10% under$45,820Top 10% over$97,380
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$22.03/hr
Jobs in this area
910
After cost of living
$83,000
Median hourly pay
$37.15/hr
vs U.S. median
+22%
vs Wisconsin median
+1%
Mean (average) pay
$72,580 a year · $34.90 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 24580, Green Bay, 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 Green Bay, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$22.03$45,820
25th percentile$24.79$51,570
Median (50th)$37.15$77,260
75th percentile$44.59$92,740
90th percentile$46.82$97,380

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

How Green Bay, WI compares

  • Green Bay ranks 10th of 15 Wisconsin metro areas for electrician pay.
  • Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Green Bay area as nationally: 5.2 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Wisconsin metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Green Bay or Minneapolis?
Minneapolis pays more: the median is $77,260 in Green Bay 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 24580 (Green Bay, 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 (93.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures