Do linemen make more in Dalton or Atlanta?

Atlanta pays more: the median is $72,150 in Dalton and $83,570 in Atlanta, a 14% difference.

Lineman salary in Dalton, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Dalton, GA area earn a median of $72,150 a year, or $34.69 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $93,790. Statewide, linemen earn a median of $80,080; Dalton is 10% below it.

Median yearly pay$72,150

Bottom 10% under$46,570Top 10% over$93,790

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.39/hr
Jobs in this area: 100
After cost of living: $80,310
Median hourly pay: $34.69/hr
vs U.S. median: −24%
vs Georgia median: −10%
Mean (average) pay: $74,290 a year · $35.71 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 19140, Dalton, GA). 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 Dalton, GA 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	$22.39	$46,570
25th percentile	$29.02	$60,360
Median (50th)	$34.69	$72,150
75th percentile	$44.63	$92,820
90th percentile	$45.09	$93,790

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

How Dalton, GA compares

Dalton ranks 8th of 9 Georgia metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are more concentrated in the Dalton area than nationally: 1.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.8 times the U.S. share.

Other Georgia metro areas

Other trades in Dalton, GA

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Dalton or Atlanta?: Atlanta pays more: the median is $72,150 in Dalton and $83,570 in Atlanta, a 14% 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 19140 (Dalton, GA). 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 (89.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures