Lineman salary in Olympia, WA
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Olympia–Lacey–Tumwater, WA area earn a median of $135,450 a year, or $65.12 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $152,380. Across all of Washington, the median is $133,060, so Olympia pays 2% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $48.84/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 50
- After cost of living
- $130,650
- Median hourly pay
- $65.12/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +42%
- vs Washington median
- +2%
- Mean (average) pay
- $131,820 a year · $63.38 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Olympia, WA 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 | $48.84 | $101,590 |
| 25th percentile | $61.15 | $127,200 |
| Median (50th) | $65.12 | $135,450 |
| 75th percentile | $71.49 | $148,710 |
| 90th percentile | $73.26 | $152,380 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Olympia, WA compares
- Olympia has the highest lineman median of the 9 Washington metro areas with published pay.
- Linemen are less concentrated in the Olympia area than nationally: 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.44 times the U.S. share.
Other Washington metro areas
Other trades in Olympia, WA
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Olympia or Portland?
- Pay is about the same: the median is $135,450 in Olympia and $135,300 in Portland.
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 36500 (Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA). 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 (103.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures