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Electrician salary in Casper, WY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Casper, WY area earn a median of $69,640 a year, or $33.48 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $96,370. Across all of Wyoming, the median is $76,120, so Casper pays 9% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$69,640
Bottom 10% under$45,990Top 10% over$96,370
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$22.11/hr
Jobs in this area
450
After cost of living
$74,220
Median hourly pay
$33.48/hr
vs U.S. median
+10%
vs Wyoming median
−9%
Mean (average) pay
$69,000 a year · $33.17 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 16220, Casper, WY). 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 Casper, WY 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$22.11$45,990
25th percentile$27.79$57,790
Median (50th)$33.48$69,640
75th percentile$38.37$79,810
90th percentile$46.33$96,370

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

How Casper, WY compares

  • Electricians are more concentrated in the Casper area than nationally: 11.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Wyoming metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Casper or Cheyenne?
Cheyenne pays more: the median is $69,640 in Casper and $74,590 in Cheyenne, a 7% 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 16220 (Casper, WY). 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 (93.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures