Do linemen make more in Toledo or Akron?

Akron pays more: the median is $83,870 in Toledo and $96,340 in Akron, a 13% difference.

Lineman salary in Toledo, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Toledo, OH area earn a median of $83,870 a year, or $40.32 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $107,360. Across all of Ohio, the median is $93,150, so Toledo pays 10% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$83,870

Bottom 10% under$57,820Top 10% over$107,360

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $27.80/hr
Jobs in this area: 210
After cost of living: $91,710
Median hourly pay: $40.32/hr
vs U.S. median: −12%
vs Ohio median: −10%
Mean (average) pay: $84,480 a year · $40.61 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45780, Toledo, 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 Toledo, 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	$27.80	$57,820
25th percentile	$29.75	$61,870
Median (50th)	$40.32	$83,870
75th percentile	$50.15	$104,310
90th percentile	$51.61	$107,360

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

How Toledo, OH compares

Toledo ranks 8th of 10 Ohio metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Toledo area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.86 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

Other trades in Toledo, OH

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Toledo or Akron?: Akron pays more: the median is $83,870 in Toledo 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 45780 (Toledo, 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 (91.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures