Lineman salary in Oklahoma City, OK
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Oklahoma City, OK area earn a median of $79,470 a year, or $38.21 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $119,750. Across all of Oklahoma, the median is $76,010, so Oklahoma City pays 5% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $21.75/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 720
- After cost of living
- $87,900
- Median hourly pay
- $38.21/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −17%
- vs Oklahoma median
- +5%
- Mean (average) pay
- $81,510 a year · $39.19 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Oklahoma City, OK 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 | $21.75 | $45,240 |
| 25th percentile | $29.86 | $62,100 |
| Median (50th) | $38.21 | $79,470 |
| 75th percentile | $48.36 | $100,590 |
| 90th percentile | $57.57 | $119,750 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Oklahoma City, OK compares
- Oklahoma City has the lowest lineman median of the 4 Oklahoma metro areas with published pay.
- Linemen are more concentrated in the Oklahoma City area than nationally: 1.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.
Other Oklahoma metro areas
Other trades in Oklahoma City, OK
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Oklahoma City or Fort Smith?
- Fort Smith pays more: the median is $79,470 in Oklahoma City and $94,800 in Fort Smith, a 16% 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 36420 (Oklahoma City, OK). 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 (90.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures