Lineman salary in Jackson, MS
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Jackson, MS area earn a median of $64,760 a year, or $31.13 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $99,320. That's 15% less than the Mississippi median of $75,890.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $22.75/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 530
- After cost of living
- $72,720
- Median hourly pay
- $31.13/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −32%
- vs Mississippi median
- −15%
- Mean (average) pay
- $71,040 a year · $34.15 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Jackson, MS 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 | $22.75 | $47,320 |
| 25th percentile | $24.06 | $50,050 |
| Median (50th) | $31.13 | $64,760 |
| 75th percentile | $46.06 | $95,790 |
| 90th percentile | $47.75 | $99,320 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Jackson, MS compares
- Jackson has the lowest lineman median of the 4 Mississippi metro areas with published pay.
- Linemen are more concentrated in the Jackson area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.3 times the U.S. share.
Other Mississippi metro areas
Other trades in Jackson, MS
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Jackson or Memphis?
- Memphis pays more: the median is $64,760 in Jackson and $97,150 in Memphis, a 33% 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 27140 (Jackson, MS). 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 (89.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures