Lineman salary in Casper, WY
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Linemen in the Casper, WY area earn a median of $114,170 a year, or $54.89 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $133,910 a year. Statewide, linemen earn a median of $93,860; Casper is 22% above it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $28.93/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 60
- After cost of living
- $121,680
- Median hourly pay
- $54.89/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +20%
- vs Wyoming median
- +22%
- Mean (average) pay
- $100,820 a year · $48.47 an hour
Pay by percentile
What linemen in Casper, WY 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 | $28.93 | $60,180 |
| 25th percentile | $38.63 | $80,340 |
| Median (50th) | $54.89 | $114,170 |
| 75th percentile | $55.34 | $115,110 |
| 90th percentile | $64.38 | $133,910 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Casper, WY compares
- Linemen are more concentrated in the Casper area than nationally: 1.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.8 times the U.S. share.
Other Wyoming metro areas
Other trades in Casper, WY
Questions
- Do linemen make more in Casper or Cheyenne?
- Casper pays more: the median is $114,170 in Casper and $91,770 in Cheyenne, a 24% 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 16220 (Casper, WY). 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 (93.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures