Do linemen make more in Wichita or Topeka?

Topeka pays more: the median is $102,920 in Wichita and $108,720 in Topeka, a 5% difference.

Lineman salary in Wichita, KS

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Wichita, KS area earn a median of $102,920 a year, or $49.48 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $121,200 a year. That's 1% more than the Kansas median of $101,620.

Median yearly pay$102,920

Bottom 10% under$58,230Top 10% over$121,200

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $27.99/hr
Jobs in this area: 200
After cost of living: $115,710
Median hourly pay: $49.48/hr
vs U.S. median: +8%
vs Kansas median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $91,350 a year · $43.92 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 48620, Wichita, KS). 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 Wichita, KS 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	$27.99	$58,230
25th percentile	$35.47	$73,770
Median (50th)	$49.48	$102,920
75th percentile	$50.64	$105,320
90th percentile	$58.27	$121,200

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

How Wichita, KS compares

Wichita ranks 4th of 7 Kansas metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Wichita area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.76 times the U.S. share.

Other Kansas metro areas

Other trades in Wichita, KS

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Wichita or Topeka?: Topeka pays more: the median is $102,920 in Wichita and $108,720 in Topeka, a 5% 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 48620 (Wichita, KS). 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 (88.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures