Free crew pay benchmarks
Know the market before you make the offer.
Capturing more work only pays if you can staff it. Underpay and the good techs walk to the shop down the road; overpay blind and the margin goes with them. These are published U.S. government wage distributions — by trade, experience level, and market — with the source of every number shown.
Electricians · Experienced (Level III) · United States
$64,580 – $85,786
midpoint $74,759 / yr base pay
Where these numbers come from
- Source: U.S. BLS OEWS, May 2025 vintage (as of 2025-05-01) — Electricians (SOC 47-2111), United States.
- Level band: Experienced (Level III) — P50–P75, mid ≈ P62 of the published distribution (DOL/OFLC four-tier convention, mid linearly interpolated).
- Aging: trended +2.2% from 2025Q2 to 2026Q1 via ECI wages & salaries, private industry (BLS).
Levels are percentile bands
Entry ≈ the 10th–25th percentile of the published distribution, Experienced ≈ the 50th–75th, Senior ≈ the 75th–90th. A lead tech you can't afford to lose usually prices in the Senior band.
Your market matters
The same electrician prices differently in Palm Bay, Miami, and Phoenix. Pick the metro you actually hire in; the tool falls back to state and national data when a metro isn't published.
Base pay is the floor
These distributions are base wages. Trucks, fuel cards, phone stipends, overtime policy, and health coverage decide who actually accepts — and who stays.
The other half of staffing up
Hiring for growth only works if the phone keeps ringing — and gets answered.
Elevare Edge builds and manages the capture system behind the crew: missed-call recovery, follow-up, and intake that keep the jobs you already earned.
Hiring at the leadership level?
Senior packages have thirty moving parts, not one number.
For project managers, superintendents, and executives, our Consulting division models the complete package — equity, protections, transition value — from the same sourced data discipline.