Electrician Salary in Georgia 2026,
$58,320 Median | BLS Data by City

Georgia electricians earn a median $58,320 a year, $28.04 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with the middle half between $46,640 and $76,490 and a full range of $37,180 to $84,000. The wide middle band reflects how differently residential tract work and industrial or federal contract work pay in this state.

Hinesville pays the most at $63,840, then Warner Robins at $63,110, Augusta-Richmond County at $59,660, Brunswick-St. Simons at $58,880 and Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell at $58,650. Georgia is one of very few states where the largest metro is the lowest-paying one for this trade, and the reason is the volume of competitively bid residential construction around Atlanta.

No. Georgia licenses only electrical contractors, through the Division of Electrical Contractors of the State Construction Industry Licensing Board. There is no state journeyman or apprentice licence, so an electrician may work as an employee without any state credential. The contractor licence comes in two classes and requires documented experience, a passing examination and financial responsibility evidence.

Class I is a restricted electrical contractor licence, limited to installations at or below 200 amps with restrictions on three-phase and voltage. Class II is unrestricted and permits contracting on any electrical installation in the state. Class II requires more documented experience and a harder examination, and it is the licence that opens commercial and industrial contracting.

Because Atlanta's electrical demand is dominated by residential and light commercial construction, which is competitively bid and staffed at high volume, while Hinesville and Warner Robins revolve around federal installations where work is performed under Davis-Bacon prevailing wage determinations. Federal wage floors sit above Georgia's private construction market rate, which inverts the usual big-city premium.

It is, but unevenly. Large industrial projects along the I-85 corridor and the Atlanta data centre cluster draw travelling electricians from across the Southeast, which meets peak demand without repricing the resident journeyman rate. What has changed is the value of commissioning, controls and medium-voltage skills, which were thin in Georgia's residential-heavy market and now command a clear premium toward the state 75th percentile of $76,490.

A great deal, but not as a wage. Georgia's unrestricted Class II licence lets you contract in your own name statewide, which converts you from an employee to a business. The state 90th percentile of $84,000 as a wage figure understates what an established Georgia electrical contractor earns and overstates what a newly licensed one does in their first years, when insurance, bonding and equipment costs land before the work does.

It cuts both ways. Entry into the trade is easy, which is good for anyone starting out and part of why Georgia's construction sector can staff up quickly. But without a state journeyman credential there is no portable proof of competence, so an electrician's wage depends on their employer's assessment rather than on a licence, and the bottom of the Georgia range at $37,180 reflects how many people are working with no formal recognition at all.