Do linemen make more in Killeen or Houston?

Houston pays more: the median is $76,150 in Killeen and $82,710 in Houston, a 8% difference.

Lineman salary in Killeen, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Linemen in the Killeen–Temple, TX area earn a median of $76,150 a year, or $36.61 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $100,830. Statewide, linemen earn a median of $78,940; Killeen is 4% below it.

Median yearly pay$76,150

Bottom 10% under$44,910Top 10% over$100,830

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.59/hr
Jobs in this area: 90
After cost of living: $83,560
Median hourly pay: $36.61/hr
vs U.S. median: −20%
vs Texas median: −4%
Mean (average) pay: $72,980 a year · $35.09 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 28660, Killeen-Temple, TX). 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 Killeen, 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	$21.59	$44,910
25th percentile	$26.92	$55,990
Median (50th)	$36.61	$76,150
75th percentile	$43.47	$90,410
90th percentile	$48.48	$100,830

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

How Killeen, TX compares

Killeen ranks 14th of 19 Texas metro areas for lineman pay.
Linemen are less concentrated in the Killeen area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.75 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

Other trades in Killeen, TX

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Questions

Do linemen make more in Killeen or Houston?: Houston pays more: the median is $76,150 in Killeen and $82,710 in Houston, 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 28660 (Killeen-Temple, 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 (91.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures