Do linemen make more in Anniston or Birmingham?

Birmingham pays more: the median is $98,840 in Anniston and $102,470 in Birmingham, a 4% difference.

Lineman salary in Anniston, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Anniston–Oxford, AL area earn a median of $98,840 a year, or $47.52 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $107,050. Across all of Alabama, the median is $92,030, so Anniston pays 7% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$98,840

Bottom 10% under$57,510Top 10% over$107,050

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $27.65/hr
Jobs in this area: 60
After cost of living: $115,000
Median hourly pay: $47.52/hr
vs U.S. median: +4%
vs Alabama median: +7%
Mean (average) pay: $88,310 a year · $42.46 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 11500, Anniston-Oxford, AL). Excludes self-employed linemen. 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 linemen in Anniston, AL 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	$27.65	$57,510
25th percentile	$35.40	$73,630
Median (50th)	$47.52	$98,840
75th percentile	$49.35	$102,650
90th percentile	$51.46	$107,050

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

How Anniston, AL compares

Anniston ranks 4th of 12 Alabama metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are more concentrated in the Anniston area than nationally: 1.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

Other trades in Anniston, AL

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Anniston or Birmingham?: Birmingham pays more: the median is $98,840 in Anniston and $102,470 in Birmingham, 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 49-9051 (Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers), area code 11500 (Anniston-Oxford, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed linemen 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 (85.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures