Do linemen make more in Mobile or Birmingham?

Pay is about the same: the median is $102,380 in Mobile and $102,470 in Birmingham.

Lineman salary in Mobile, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Mobile, AL area earn a median of $102,380 a year, or $49.22 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $103,580 a year. Across all of Alabama, the median is $92,030, so Mobile pays 11% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$102,380

Bottom 10% under$54,600Top 10% over$103,580

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $26.25/hr
Jobs in this area: 140
After cost of living: $116,210
Median hourly pay: $49.22/hr
vs U.S. median: +7%
vs Alabama median: +11%
Mean (average) pay: $91,040 a year · $43.77 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33660, Mobile, 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 Mobile, 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	$26.25	$54,600
25th percentile	$37.64	$78,280
Median (50th)	$49.22	$102,380
75th percentile	$49.59	$103,150
90th percentile	$49.80	$103,580

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

How Mobile, AL compares

Mobile ranks 2nd of 12 Alabama metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen hold about the same share of jobs in the Mobile area as nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Alabama metro areas

Other trades in Mobile, AL

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Mobile or Birmingham?: Pay is about the same: the median is $102,380 in Mobile and $102,470 in Birmingham.

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 33660 (Mobile, 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 (88.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures