Do linemen make more in Omaha or Sioux City?

Pay is about the same: the median is $101,960 in Omaha and $102,340 in Sioux City.

Lineman salary in Omaha, NE-IA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Omaha, NE-IA area earn a median of $101,960 a year, or $49.02 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $118,230. That's 11% more than the Nebraska median of $92,150.

Median yearly pay$101,960

Bottom 10% under$60,390Top 10% over$118,230

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $29.03/hr
Jobs in this area: 370
After cost of living: $110,930
Median hourly pay: $49.02/hr
vs U.S. median: +7%
vs Nebraska median: +11%
Mean (average) pay: $93,660 a year · $45.03 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36540, Omaha, NE-IA). 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 Omaha, NE-IA 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	$29.03	$60,390
25th percentile	$39.41	$81,970
Median (50th)	$49.02	$101,960
75th percentile	$52.22	$108,620
90th percentile	$56.84	$118,230

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

How Omaha, NE-IA compares

Omaha ranks 2nd of 4 Nebraska metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Omaha area than nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.89 times the U.S. share.

Other Nebraska metro areas

Other trades in Omaha, NE-IA

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Omaha or Sioux City?: Pay is about the same: the median is $101,960 in Omaha and $102,340 in Sioux City.

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 36540 (Omaha, NE-IA). 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 (91.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures