Do electricians make more in Milwaukee or Minneapolis?

Minneapolis pays more: the median is $77,800 in Milwaukee and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 5% difference.

Electrician salary in Milwaukee, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Milwaukee–Waukesha, WI area earn a median of $77,800 a year, or $37.41 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $103,850 a year. Across all of Wisconsin, the median is $76,540, so Milwaukee pays 2% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$77,800

Bottom 10% under$45,170Top 10% over$103,850

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.72/hr
Jobs in this area: 4,490
After cost of living: $80,260
Median hourly pay: $37.41/hr
vs U.S. median: +23%
vs Wisconsin median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $75,670 a year · $36.38 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33340, Milwaukee-Waukesha, 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 Milwaukee, 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	$21.72	$45,170
25th percentile	$27.48	$57,170
Median (50th)	$37.41	$77,800
75th percentile	$47.39	$98,560
90th percentile	$49.93	$103,850

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

How Milwaukee, WI compares

Milwaukee ranks 9th of 15 Wisconsin metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Milwaukee area than nationally: 5.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Wisconsin metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Milwaukee or Minneapolis?: Minneapolis pays more: the median is $77,800 in Milwaukee and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 5% 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 33340 (Milwaukee-Waukesha, 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 (96.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures