Do linemen make more in Canton or Akron?

Canton pays more: the median is $109,300 in Canton and $96,340 in Akron, a 13% difference.

Lineman salary in Canton, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Canton–Massillon, OH area earn a median of $109,300 a year, or $52.55 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $111,480. Across all of Ohio, the median is $93,150, so Canton pays 17% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$109,300

Bottom 10% under$64,880Top 10% over$111,480

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $31.19/hr
Jobs in this area: 90
After cost of living: $122,250
Median hourly pay: $52.55/hr
vs U.S. median: +15%
vs Ohio median: +17%
Mean (average) pay: $96,690 a year · $46.49 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 15940, Canton-Massillon, OH). 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 Canton, OH 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	$31.19	$64,880
25th percentile	$37.05	$77,060
Median (50th)	$52.55	$109,300
75th percentile	$53.60	$111,480
90th percentile	$53.60	$111,480

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

How Canton, OH compares

Canton has the highest lineman median of the 10 Ohio metro areas with published pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Canton area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.69 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

Other trades in Canton, OH

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Canton or Akron?: Canton pays more: the median is $109,300 in Canton and $96,340 in Akron, a 13% 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 15940 (Canton-Massillon, OH). 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 (89.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures