Lineman salary in Phoenix, AZ
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler, AZ area earn a median of $75,420 a year, or $36.26 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $132,280. Across all of Arizona, the median is $75,420, so Phoenix pays about the same as the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $23.03/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 2,810
- After cost of living
- $73,000
- Median hourly pay
- $36.26/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −21%
- vs Arizona median
- 0%
- Mean (average) pay
- $82,060 a year · $39.45 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Phoenix, AZ 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 | $23.03 | $47,900 |
| 25th percentile | $27.79 | $57,800 |
| Median (50th) | $36.26 | $75,420 |
| 75th percentile | $46.19 | $96,080 |
| 90th percentile | $63.60 | $132,280 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Phoenix, AZ compares
- Phoenix has the lowest lineman median of the 5 Arizona metro areas with published pay.
- Linemen are more concentrated in the Phoenix area than nationally: 1.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.
Other Arizona metro areas
Other trades in Phoenix, AZ
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Phoenix or Sierra Vista?
- Sierra Vista pays more: the median is $75,420 in Phoenix and $97,910 in Sierra Vista, a 23% 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 38060 (Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ). 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 (103.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures