Lineman salary in Austin, TX
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos, TX area earn a median of $82,120 a year, or $39.48 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $106,700 a year. Across all of Texas, the median is $78,940, so Austin pays 4% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $23.06/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 1,270
- After cost of living
- $83,740
- Median hourly pay
- $39.48/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −14%
- vs Texas median
- +4%
- Mean (average) pay
- $81,310 a year · $39.09 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Austin, TX 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 | $23.06 | $47,970 |
| 25th percentile | $29.34 | $61,020 |
| Median (50th) | $39.48 | $82,120 |
| 75th percentile | $47.90 | $99,620 |
| 90th percentile | $51.30 | $106,700 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Austin, TX compares
- Austin ranks 2nd of 19 Texas metro areas for lineman pay.
- Linemen are more concentrated in the Austin area than nationally: 1.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.
Other Texas metro areas
Other trades in Austin, TX
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Austin or Houston?
- Houston pays more: the median is $82,120 in Austin and $82,710 in Houston, a 1% 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 12420 (Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX). 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 (98.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures