Journeyman Lineman Salary & Pay Data
BLS OEWS May 2025 · Broader BLS occupation: SOC 49-9051 Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
Proxy: median, all electrical power-line installers and repairers
$95,320
$45.83 an hour
Journeyman Lineman wage (BLS)
Not published
BLS does not split line workers by tier; this is all power-line installers and repairers, apprentices included.
Where a union local sets journeyman lineman scale, the local's own wage sheet is the rate.
Annual figures are BLS hourly wages × 2,080 hours. OEWS covers wage-and-salary workers only, so it leaves out the self-employed, workers in private households, overtime pay and most bonuses.
What the BLS figure covers
Median, all electrical power-line installers and repairers
$95,320
Jobs in the occupation
131,070
BLS series for this title
None
These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 49-9051 Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers.
BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for journeyman linemen, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.