Lineman salary in Panama City, FL
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Panama City–Panama City Beach, FL area earn a median of $73,510 a year, or $35.34 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $104,020. Statewide, linemen earn a median of $86,870; Panama City is 15% below it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $23.42/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 80
- After cost of living
- $75,550
- Median hourly pay
- $35.34/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −23%
- vs Florida median
- −15%
- Mean (average) pay
- $73,290 a year · $35.24 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Panama City, 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.
| Percentile | Hourly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $23.42 | $48,710 |
| 25th percentile | $24.23 | $50,400 |
| Median (50th) | $35.34 | $73,510 |
| 75th percentile | $47.57 | $98,950 |
| 90th percentile | $50.01 | $104,020 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Panama City, FL compares
- Panama City ranks 16th of 17 Florida metro areas for lineman pay.
- Linemen hold about the same share of jobs in the Panama City area as nationally: 0.9 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Florida metro areas
Other trades in Panama City, FL
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Panama City or Miami?
- Miami pays more: the median is $73,510 in Panama City and $96,240 in Miami, a 24% 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 37460 (Panama City-Panama City Beach, 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 (97.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures