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Lineman salary in Florence, SC

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Florence, SC area earn a median of $75,340 a year, or $36.22 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $104,200. That's 2% less than the South Carolina median of $76,870.

Median yearly pay$75,340
Bottom 10% under$47,860Top 10% over$104,200
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$23.01/hr
Jobs in this area
70
After cost of living
$86,820
Median hourly pay
$36.22/hr
vs U.S. median
−21%
vs South Carolina median
−2%
Mean (average) pay
$76,530 a year · $36.79 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 22500, Florence, SC). 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 Florence, SC 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$23.01$47,860
25th percentile$29.58$61,520
Median (50th)$36.22$75,340
75th percentile$49.67$103,320
90th percentile$50.09$104,200

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

How Florence, SC compares

  • Florence ranks 7th of 8 South Carolina metro areas for lineman pay.
  • Linemen are less concentrated in the Florence area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.87 times the U.S. share.

Other South Carolina metro areas

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Florence or Charlotte?
Charlotte pays more: the median is $75,340 in Florence and $81,740 in Charlotte, a 8% 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 22500 (Florence, SC). 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 (86.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures