Do linemen make more in Dothan or Birmingham?

Birmingham pays more: the median is $75,640 in Dothan and $102,470 in Birmingham, a 26% difference.

Lineman salary in Dothan, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Dothan, AL area earn a median of $75,640 a year, or $36.37 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $101,320 a year. That's 18% less than the Alabama median of $92,030.

Median yearly pay$75,640

Bottom 10% under$42,470Top 10% over$101,320

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.42/hr
Jobs in this area: 90
After cost of living: $90,230
Median hourly pay: $36.37/hr
vs U.S. median: −21%
vs Alabama median: −18%
Mean (average) pay: $75,260 a year · $36.18 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 20020, Dothan, 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 Dothan, 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	$20.42	$42,470
25th percentile	$23.74	$49,370
Median (50th)	$36.37	$75,640
75th percentile	$46.09	$95,880
90th percentile	$48.71	$101,320

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

How Dothan, AL compares

Dothan ranks 11th of 12 Alabama metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are more concentrated in the Dothan area than nationally: 1.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.7 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

Other trades in Dothan, AL

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Dothan or Birmingham?: Birmingham pays more: the median is $75,640 in Dothan and $102,470 in Birmingham, a 26% 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 20020 (Dothan, 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 (83.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures