Do electricians make more in Racine or Minneapolis?

Racine pays more: the median is $82,510 in Racine and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 1% difference.

Electrician salary in Racine, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Racine–Mount Pleasant, WI area earn a median of $82,510 a year, or $39.67 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $106,820 a year. Across all of Wisconsin, the median is $76,540, so Racine pays 8% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$82,510

Bottom 10% under$45,500Top 10% over$106,820

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.88/hr
Jobs in this area: 350
After cost of living: $85,980
Median hourly pay: $39.67/hr
vs U.S. median: +31%
vs Wisconsin median: +8%
Mean (average) pay: $79,180 a year · $38.07 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39540, Racine-Mount Pleasant, 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 Racine, 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	$21.88	$45,500
25th percentile	$28.72	$59,740
Median (50th)	$39.67	$82,510
75th percentile	$46.36	$96,420
90th percentile	$51.36	$106,820

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

How Racine, WI compares

Racine ranks 2nd of 15 Wisconsin metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians hold about the same share of jobs in the Racine area as nationally: 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Racine or Minneapolis?: Racine pays more: the median is $82,510 in Racine and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 1% 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 39540 (Racine-Mount Pleasant, 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 (96.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures