Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay salary

SOC 49-2095 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$103,020

per year, nationally

Middle half

$81,860–$118,870

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

20,720

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+5.5%

2,000 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$65,730$129,920

10th: $65,730
25th: $81,860
Median: $103,020
75th: $118,870
90th: $129,920

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Postsecondary nondegree award
Related work experience: Less than 5 years
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Oregon	$131,050	103.4	170	0.65×
2	Hawaii	$127,330	110.0	70	0.81×
3	Washington	$125,620	107.0	410	0.86×
4	Colorado	$125,560	103.1	210	0.54×
5	Alaska	$125,260	102.4	80	1.81×
6	California	$121,520	110.7	1,680	0.69×
7	Massachusetts	$119,460	105.8	430	0.90×
8	Idaho	$119,170	95.5	100	0.91×
9	Maryland	$117,760	105.0	—	—
10	Utah	$114,250	98.9	100	0.45×
11	New Jersey	$111,600	108.8	450	0.79×
12	Connecticut	$109,610	103.6	210	0.92×
13	Wisconsin	$108,980	94.1	150	0.38×
14	Rhode Island	$107,980	102.3	30	0.46×
15	Illinois	$107,470	100.0	420	0.52×
16	Georgia	$106,930	96.3	540	0.83×
17	Michigan	$106,600	96.2	450	0.77×
18	Indiana	$105,700	93.3	290	0.68×
19	Vermont	$105,640	98.0	30	0.85×
20	Kansas	$104,970	90.1	280	1.44×
21	Nebraska	$104,850	90.1	60	0.46×
22	North Carolina	$104,710	94.3	950	1.45×
23	Texas	$102,470	97.1	2,360	1.26×
24	South Dakota	$101,830	88.6	40	0.68×
25	Florida	$101,780	103.4	910	0.69×
26	Pennsylvania	$101,660	97.6	1,110	1.38×
27	Arkansas	$101,120	86.9	260	1.49×
28	New Mexico	$100,410	92.2	140	1.19×
29	Minnesota	$99,900	98.6	—	—
30	Virginia	$99,390	101.1	910	1.66×
31	Kentucky	$98,860	90.2	130	0.50×
32	Ohio	$98,700	92.8	1,120	1.52×
33	New York	$98,310	107.9	3,160	2.45×
34	Oklahoma	$97,800	87.8	330	1.45×
35	West Virginia	$97,600	89.5	70	0.77×
36	Montana	$97,380	94.6	130	1.86×
37	Missouri	$96,850	90.8	290	0.74×
38	Tennessee	$96,840	91.9	430	0.99×
39	Alabama	$95,150	88.8	280	1.01×
40	Mississippi	$94,970	87.0	160	1.00×
41	Maine	$92,570	97.0	160	1.83×
42	South Carolina	$91,140	93.7	230	0.75×
43	Iowa	$86,490	87.8	120	0.56×
44	New Hampshire	$81,020	104.2	50	0.60×
45	Louisiana	$80,610	88.2	370	1.42×
46	Arizona	$79,160	100.7	160	0.37×
47	North Dakota	$75,050	89.0	80	1.33×
48	Nevada	$74,360	100.0	—	—

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Fresno, CA	$145,530	102.2	40	0.66×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$141,580	115.6	90	0.29×
3	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$135,130	111.1	220	0.79×
4	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$133,300	105.8	90	0.41×
5	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$131,080	106.4	240	1.06×
6	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$129,590	105.4	90	0.58×
7	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$128,540	110.5	60	1.42×
8	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$126,820	100.9	40	0.39×
9	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$124,700	99.6	80	1.31×
10	Tulsa, OK	$122,260	89.2	—	—
11	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$121,670	95.8	60	0.88×
12	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$120,930	110.4	70	0.44×
13	Jacksonville, FL	$120,840	99.5	130	1.23×
14	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$119,460	108.3	290	0.81×
15	Syracuse, NY	$119,230	95.7	160	3.95×
16	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$118,990	113.6	540	0.64×
17	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$114,480	103.6	170	0.28×
18	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$114,170	95.7	100	0.66×
19	Rochester, NY	$114,050	97.0	80	1.23×
20	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$112,010	106.9	40	0.66×
21	Clarksville, TN-KY	$110,660	90.9	30	2.50×
22	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$110,140	102.7	60	0.75×
23	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$109,570	106.7	230	1.59×
24	Canton-Massillon, OH	$109,370	89.4	40	1.96×
25	Chattanooga, TN-GA	$109,010	91.5	60	1.70×
26	Kansas City, MO-KS	$108,900	92.5	120	0.85×
27	Greensboro-High Point, NC	$108,240	92.9	70	1.34×
28	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA	$107,990	93.6	40	1.29×
29	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$107,750	100.9	40	0.91×
30	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$107,470	101.8	50	0.55×
31	Wilmington, NC	$106,950	96.4	60	2.43×
32	Worcester, MA	$106,680	102.5	90	2.02×
33	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$106,600	100.3	150	0.60×
34	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$106,510	102.6	400	1.03×
35	Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI	$106,400	95.5	50	0.67×
36	Visalia, CA	$105,830	99.8	30	1.33×
37	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$105,300	97.3	280	1.52×
38	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$105,160	108.9	170	0.41×
39	Columbus, OH	$105,150	95.5	190	1.32×
40	Charlottesville, VA	$104,870	99.1	—	—

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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