Do linemen make more in Bend or Eugene?

Eugene pays more: the median is $132,010 in Bend and $140,270 in Eugene, a 6% difference.

Lineman salary in Bend, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Bend, OR area earn a median of $132,010 a year, or $63.47 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $159,820. Across all of Oregon, the median is $131,090, so Bend pays 1% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$132,010

Bottom 10% under$65,620Top 10% over$159,820

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $31.55/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $127,410
Median hourly pay: $63.47/hr
vs U.S. median: +38%
vs Oregon median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $124,480 a year · $59.85 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13460, Bend, OR). 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 Bend, OR 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	$31.55	$65,620
25th percentile	$58.61	$121,910
Median (50th)	$63.47	$132,010
75th percentile	$65.38	$135,990
90th percentile	$76.84	$159,820

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

How Bend, OR compares

Bend ranks 4th of 6 Oregon metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Bend area than nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.89 times the U.S. share.

Other Oregon metro areas

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Bend or Eugene?: Eugene pays more: the median is $132,010 in Bend and $140,270 in Eugene, a 6% 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 13460 (Bend, OR). 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 (103.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures