Do linemen make more in Springfield or Worcester?

Worcester pays more: the median is $101,540 in Springfield and $116,460 in Worcester, a 13% difference.

Lineman salary in Springfield, MA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Springfield, MA area earn a median of $101,540 a year, or $48.82 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $118,990. Statewide, linemen earn a median of $110,210; Springfield is 8% below it.

Median yearly pay$101,540

Bottom 10% under$67,170Top 10% over$118,990

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $32.29/hr
Jobs in this area: 190
After cost of living: $105,700
Median hourly pay: $48.82/hr
vs U.S. median: +7%
vs Massachusetts median: −8%
Mean (average) pay: $94,950 a year · $45.65 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 44140, Springfield, MA). 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 Springfield, MA 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	$32.29	$67,170
25th percentile	$39.48	$82,130
Median (50th)	$48.82	$101,540
75th percentile	$52.51	$109,210
90th percentile	$57.21	$118,990

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

How Springfield, MA compares

Springfield ranks 4th of 5 Massachusetts metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are more concentrated in the Springfield area than nationally: 1.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Massachusetts metro areas

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Springfield or Worcester?: Worcester pays more: the median is $101,540 in Springfield and $116,460 in Worcester, a 13% 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 44140 (Springfield, MA). 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 (96.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures