Electrician Salary in Indiana 2026,
$68,490 Median | BLS Data by City

Indiana electricians earn a median $68,490 a year, $32.93 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with the middle half between $50,000 and $91,290 and a full range of $43,190 to $99,310. That is 8.4% above the $63,190 national median, and the width of the band is the most important thing on this page.

Not at state level. Indiana is one of the few states with no statewide journeyman or master electrician licence — electrical licensing is handled by municipalities and counties, each with its own requirements, examinations and reciprocity arrangements. An electrician working across Indiana may need more than one local licence, and the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency does not issue an individual electrical trade credential.

Kokomo at $91,290 by a wide margin, then Columbus at $79,670, Evansville at $79,240, Lafayette-West Lafayette at $78,540 and Terre Haute at $77,650 — all manufacturing towns, and all well above the state median of $68,490. Indianapolis does not lead this table, which is unusual and tells you where Indiana's electrical money actually is.

Substantially, and it is the defining fact of this trade here. Indiana has the highest manufacturing employment share of any state, and plant maintenance electricians in automotive, engine, pharmaceutical and heavy equipment facilities work with controls, drives, instrumentation and medium-voltage systems on production lines where downtime is expensive. Kokomo's $91,290 figure is that market, and it sits at the Indiana 75th percentile.

A flat 3.05% state income tax, among the lowest in the country, plus a county income tax charged on the county where you live — every Indiana county levies one and the rates vary by more than the state rate itself. For a tradesman whose work moves between counties, the residence county is the tax decision that matters.

Because it is a company town for a trade that pays for uptime. Kokomo's automotive manufacturing base employs maintenance electricians who keep production lines running, working with drives, controls, robotics and medium-voltage distribution in facilities where an hour of downtime is expensive. That work is skilled, hard to staff and rewarded accordingly. Indianapolis has a broader construction market with more residential and commercial work and a deeper supply of tradesmen, so the same trade clears at a lower rate.

Portability. In Maryland or Virginia a state credential travels with you and is recognised everywhere in the state. In Indiana an electrician licensed in one city may need to qualify again in the next, which raises the friction of moving between jurisdictions and makes the local market — and the local employer — more important. On the other hand it lowers the barrier to entry, which is part of why the bottom of the Indiana band, at $43,190 and $50,000, sits so far below the industrial tier.

It is a wage figure, not a compensation figure. Industrial plant maintenance in Indiana runs shift work, call-outs and heavy scheduled overtime, so individual annual earnings in the upper half of this band frequently reflect hours as much as rate — and the shift patterns are a real quality-of-life cost. On organised work, pension and health contributions add substantially to a figure the survey never sees. And self-employed electricians running small residential shops are largely outside the payroll survey.