Do linemen make more in Cleveland or Akron?

Akron pays more: the median is $91,120 in Cleveland and $96,340 in Akron, a 5% difference.

Lineman salary in Cleveland, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Cleveland, OH area earn a median of $91,120 a year, or $43.81 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $111,370 a year. That's 2% less than the Ohio median of $93,150.

Median yearly pay$91,120

Bottom 10% under$62,080Top 10% over$111,370

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $29.84/hr
Jobs in this area: 440
After cost of living: $97,020
Median hourly pay: $43.81/hr
vs U.S. median: −4%
vs Ohio median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $89,220 a year · $42.89 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 17410, Cleveland, 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 Cleveland, 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	$29.84	$62,080
25th percentile	$37.01	$76,980
Median (50th)	$43.81	$91,120
75th percentile	$50.19	$104,400
90th percentile	$53.54	$111,370

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

How Cleveland, OH compares

Cleveland ranks 6th of 10 Ohio metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Cleveland area than nationally: 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.51 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Cleveland or Akron?: Akron pays more: the median is $91,120 in Cleveland and $96,340 in Akron, a 5% 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 17410 (Cleveland, 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 (93.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures