Lineman salary in Bismarck, ND
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Bismarck, ND area earn a median of $104,800 a year, or $50.39 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $125,010. Across all of North Dakota, the median is $105,870, so Bismarck pays 1% less than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $29.22/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 90
- After cost of living
- $115,130
- Median hourly pay
- $50.39/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +10%
- vs North Dakota median
- −1%
- Mean (average) pay
- $99,240 a year · $47.71 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Bismarck, ND 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 | $29.22 | $60,770 |
| 25th percentile | $37.25 | $77,480 |
| Median (50th) | $50.39 | $104,800 |
| 75th percentile | $55.34 | $115,110 |
| 90th percentile | $60.10 | $125,010 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Bismarck, ND compares
- Bismarck has the lowest lineman median of the 3 North Dakota metro areas with published pay.
- Linemen are more concentrated in the Bismarck area than nationally: 1.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.
Other North Dakota metro areas
Other trades in Bismarck, ND
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Bismarck or Grand Forks?
- Grand Forks pays more: the median is $104,800 in Bismarck and $113,700 in Grand Forks, a 8% 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 13900 (Bismarck, ND). 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 (91.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures