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Pontecorvo: Median Bay Area electrician salary is roughly $90,000

Emily Pontecorvo · The Carbon Copy: The great electrician shortage · Mar 9, 2023 · at 15:45

Emily Pontecorvo, clean energy reporter at Grist, highlights compensation levels for electricians during a discussion on recruiting younger workers into skilled trades.

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“The median salary for an electrician in the Bay Area is about 90,000 dollars, and a lot of people make six figures.”

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The claim, plainly

The median annual salary for an electrician in the San Francisco Bay Area is approximately $90,000, with many earning six figures.

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Assessment

Official occupational wage data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and California Employment Development Department (EDD) OEWS series substantiate both legs of the claim. Circa 2022–2023, the median annual wage for electricians in the primary San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan areas (San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward and San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara) was approximately $91,000 to $98,550, aligning closely with the stated 'about $90,000'. Furthermore, wage percentile distributions show that the 75th percentile reached over $128,000–$130,000 and the 90th percentile exceeded $173,000–$182,000, confirming that a substantial portion of electricians in the region earn six-figure salaries.

California EDD/O*NET OEWS data report a 50th percentile (median) annual salary of $92,830 for electricians in the San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward area and $91,030 in the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara area.
The 75th and 90th percentile wages in both Bay Area MSAs ranged from $128,530 to $182,340, confirming that over a quarter of electricians in the area earn well into six figures.
May 2022 and May 2023 BLS OEWS reports place mean annual wages for electricians in these Bay Area metro areas between $96,330 and $102,590.

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[1] bls.gov [2] bls.gov [3] bls.gov [4] bls.gov [5] onetonline.org

"San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward" "Electricians" "May 2021" "47-2111" "San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA" "May 2023" "47-2111" "hourly median" OR "annual mean" BLS OEWS May 2022 47-2111 San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward "San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA" "Electricians" "May 2022 OEWS" OR "May 2023 OEWS" BLS OEWS May 2022 Electricians 47 2111 San Francisco Oakland Hayward CA median salary

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