Do linemen make more in Huntsville or Birmingham?

Birmingham pays more: the median is $87,080 in Huntsville and $102,470 in Birmingham, a 15% difference.

Lineman salary in Huntsville, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Huntsville, AL area earn a median of $87,080 a year, or $41.87 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $105,090. Statewide, linemen earn a median of $92,030; Huntsville is 5% below it.

Median yearly pay$87,080

Bottom 10% under$42,510Top 10% over$105,090

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.44/hr
Jobs in this area: 200
After cost of living: $93,560
Median hourly pay: $41.87/hr
vs U.S. median: −9%
vs Alabama median: −5%
Mean (average) pay: $81,060 a year · $38.97 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 26620, Huntsville, 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 Huntsville, 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	$20.44	$42,510
25th percentile	$28.90	$60,120
Median (50th)	$41.87	$87,080
75th percentile	$50.53	$105,090
90th percentile	$50.53	$105,090

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

How Huntsville, AL compares

Huntsville ranks 9th of 12 Alabama metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Huntsville area than nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.90 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

Other trades in Huntsville, AL

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Huntsville or Birmingham?: Birmingham pays more: the median is $87,080 in Huntsville and $102,470 in Birmingham, a 15% 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 26620 (Huntsville, 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 (93.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures