Lineman salary in Port St. Lucie, FL
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Port St. Lucie, FL area earn a median of $97,290 a year, or $46.77 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $110,230 a year. Statewide, linemen earn a median of $86,870; Port St. Lucie is 12% above it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $29.67/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 180
- After cost of living
- $97,070
- Median hourly pay
- $46.77/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +2%
- vs Florida median
- +12%
- Mean (average) pay
- $91,360 a year · $43.92 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Port St. Lucie, 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 | $29.67 | $61,720 |
| 25th percentile | $38.41 | $79,890 |
| Median (50th) | $46.77 | $97,290 |
| 75th percentile | $52.21 | $108,590 |
| 90th percentile | $53.00 | $110,230 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Port St. Lucie, FL compares
- Port St. Lucie ranks 6th of 17 Florida metro areas for lineman pay.
- Linemen are more concentrated in the Port St. Lucie area than nationally: 1.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.
Other Florida metro areas
Other trades in Port St. Lucie, FL
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Port St. Lucie or Miami?
- Port St. Lucie pays more: the median is $97,290 in Port St. Lucie and $96,240 in Miami, a 1% 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 38940 (Port St. Lucie, 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 (100.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures