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Lineman salary in Orlando, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, FL area earn a median of $80,510 a year, or $38.71 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $110,590 a year. That's 7% less than the Florida median of $86,870.

Median yearly pay$80,510
Bottom 10% under$49,930Top 10% over$110,590
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$24.01/hr
Jobs in this area
920
After cost of living
$79,380
Median hourly pay
$38.71/hr
vs U.S. median
−16%
vs Florida median
−7%
Mean (average) pay
$82,740 a year · $39.78 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36740, Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL). 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 Orlando, FL 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$24.01$49,930
25th percentile$30.35$63,130
Median (50th)$38.71$80,510
75th percentile$50.42$104,880
90th percentile$53.17$110,590

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

How Orlando, FL compares

  • Orlando ranks 12th of 17 Florida metro areas for lineman pay.
  • Linemen are less concentrated in the Orlando area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.78 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Orlando or Lakeland?
Lakeland pays more: the median is $80,510 in Orlando and $98,520 in Lakeland, a 18% 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 36740 (Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL). 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 (101.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures