Do electricians make more in Sheboygan or Minneapolis?

Minneapolis pays more: the median is $78,880 in Sheboygan and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 4% difference.

Electrician salary in Sheboygan, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Sheboygan, WI area earn a median of $78,880 a year, or $37.92 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $102,190 a year. Across all of Wisconsin, the median is $76,540, so Sheboygan pays 3% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$78,880

Bottom 10% under$40,320Top 10% over$102,190

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $19.39/hr
Jobs in this area: 370
After cost of living: $83,900
Median hourly pay: $37.92/hr
vs U.S. median: +25%
vs Wisconsin median: +3%
Mean (average) pay: $75,100 a year · $36.10 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 43100, Sheboygan, 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 Sheboygan, 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	$19.39	$40,320
25th percentile	$28.40	$59,080
Median (50th)	$37.92	$78,880
75th percentile	$45.18	$93,980
90th percentile	$49.13	$102,190

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

How Sheboygan, WI compares

Sheboygan ranks 5th of 15 Wisconsin metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Sheboygan area than nationally: 6.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Sheboygan or Minneapolis?: Minneapolis pays more: the median is $78,880 in Sheboygan and $81,890 in Minneapolis, a 4% 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 43100 (Sheboygan, 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 (94.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures