Do linemen make more in Manchester or Boston?

Boston pays more: the median is $100,210 in Manchester and $111,490 in Boston, a 10% difference.

Lineman salary in Manchester, NH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Manchester–Nashua, NH area earn a median of $100,210 a year, or $48.18 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $120,590 a year. That's 2% less than the New Hampshire median of $102,170.

Median yearly pay$100,210

Bottom 10% under$57,980Top 10% over$120,590

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $27.88/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $94,840
Median hourly pay: $48.18/hr
vs U.S. median: +5%
vs New Hampshire median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $95,530 a year · $45.93 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31700, Manchester-Nashua, NH). 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 Manchester, NH 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	$27.88	$57,980
25th percentile	$35.82	$74,500
Median (50th)	$48.18	$100,210
75th percentile	$57.86	$120,350
90th percentile	$57.98	$120,590

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

How Manchester, NH compares

Linemen are less concentrated in the Manchester area than nationally: 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.46 times the U.S. share.

Other New Hampshire metro areas

Boston–Cambridge–Newton$111,490

Other trades in Manchester, NH

Electrician HVAC technician Welder Plumber Diesel mechanic Carpenter Heavy equipment operator Auto mechanic Roofer Ironworker

Questions

Do linemen make more in Manchester or Boston?: Boston pays more: the median is $100,210 in Manchester and $111,490 in Boston, a 10% 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 31700 (Manchester-Nashua, NH). 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 (105.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures