Do linemen make more in Yuma or Sierra Vista?

Sierra Vista pays more: the median is $82,550 in Yuma and $97,910 in Sierra Vista, a 16% difference.

Lineman salary in Yuma, AZ

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Yuma, AZ area earn a median of $82,550 a year, or $39.69 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $106,340 a year. Statewide, linemen earn a median of $75,420; Yuma is 9% above it.

Median yearly pay$82,550

Bottom 10% under$61,010Top 10% over$106,340

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $29.33/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $89,040
Median hourly pay: $39.69/hr
vs U.S. median: −13%
vs Arizona median: +9%
Mean (average) pay: $88,690 a year · $42.64 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 49740, Yuma, AZ). 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 Yuma, 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	$29.33	$61,010
25th percentile	$39.69	$82,550
Median (50th)	$39.69	$82,550
75th percentile	$49.70	$103,380
90th percentile	$51.12	$106,340

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

How Yuma, AZ compares

Yuma ranks 3rd of 5 Arizona metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are more concentrated in the Yuma area than nationally: 1.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Arizona metro areas

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Yuma or Sierra Vista?: Sierra Vista pays more: the median is $82,550 in Yuma and $97,910 in Sierra Vista, a 16% 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 49740 (Yuma, 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 (92.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures