Do linemen make more in Springfield or St. Louis?

St. Louis pays more: the median is $98,090 in Springfield and $103,960 in St. Louis, a 6% difference.

Lineman salary in Springfield, MO

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Springfield, MO area earn a median of $98,090 a year, or $47.16 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $108,800. Across all of Missouri, the median is $96,360, so Springfield pays 2% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$98,090

Bottom 10% under$69,270Top 10% over$108,800

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $33.30/hr
Jobs in this area: 160
After cost of living: $110,730
Median hourly pay: $47.16/hr
vs U.S. median: +3%
vs Missouri median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $94,150 a year · $45.27 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 44180, Springfield, MO). 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, MO 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	$33.30	$69,270
25th percentile	$40.07	$83,340
Median (50th)	$47.16	$98,090
75th percentile	$49.80	$103,590
90th percentile	$52.31	$108,800

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

How Springfield, MO compares

Springfield ranks 5th of 8 Missouri metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Springfield area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.85 times the U.S. share.

Other Missouri metro areas

Other trades in Springfield, MO

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Springfield or St. Louis?: St. Louis pays more: the median is $98,090 in Springfield and $103,960 in St. Louis, a 6% 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 44180 (Springfield, MO). 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 (88.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures