Do linemen make more in Binghamton or Albany?

Pay is about the same: the median is $127,170 in Binghamton and $127,580 in Albany.

Lineman salary in Binghamton, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Binghamton, NY area earn a median of $127,170 a year, or $61.14 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $133,730. That's 5% more than the New York median of $121,280.

Median yearly pay$127,170

Bottom 10% under$81,270Top 10% over$133,730

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $39.07/hr
Jobs in this area: 100
After cost of living: $136,940
Median hourly pay: $61.14/hr
vs U.S. median: +33%
vs New York median: +5%
Mean (average) pay: $115,030 a year · $55.30 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13780, Binghamton, NY). 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 Binghamton, NY 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	$39.07	$81,270
25th percentile	$48.06	$99,960
Median (50th)	$61.14	$127,170
75th percentile	$64.29	$133,730
90th percentile	$64.29	$133,730

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

How Binghamton, NY compares

Binghamton ranks 3rd of 9 New York metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are more concentrated in the Binghamton area than nationally: 1.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.

Other New York metro areas

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Binghamton or Albany?: Pay is about the same: the median is $127,170 in Binghamton and $127,580 in Albany.

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 13780 (Binghamton, NY). 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 (92.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures