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City of Los Angeles / General Services / Electrician

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Electrician

Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.

17 employees hold this title in General Services. Median total compensation for the role is $158,182, above the department median of $83,247.

Employees
17
Total payroll
$2.6M
Role median
$158,182
Agency median
$83,247
Comparison
Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$91,613$174,333+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 17 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Electrician pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Electricians — about 20,610 people — is $73,810. General Services pays a median base salary of $114,078 for this role, 55% above that figureabout the 81st percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where General Services sits in the local pay range

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$46,140
$58,830
$73,810
$101,930
$131,680
General Services median · $114,078

The bar is the range of annual wages for Electricians across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows General Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Electricians — about 757,220 people — is $63,190. General Services’s median base salary is 81% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$42,640
$49,430
$63,190
$83,940
$108,510
General Services median · $114,078

Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.

Median total compensation for this role at General Services is $158,182, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Compare departments

This role across City of Los Angeles

Electrician is held in 7 City of Los Angeles departments. In General Services, the median of $158,182 ranks #4 of 7.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Zoo
$159,063 · 1
Harbor
$158,745 · 4
Recreation and Parks
$157,288 · 16
Airports
$156,858 · 33
Water and Power
$134,617 · 22

Median total compensation for the Electrician role in other City of Los Angelesdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Compare jurisdictions

Electrician beyond City of Los Angeles

This role is reported in 30 jurisdictions. In City of Los Angeles, the median of $148,844 ranks #5 of 30. See Electrician across all of City of Los Angeles

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

City of San Jose
$186,465 · 15
Los Angeles County
$177,403 · 174
New York City
$151,263 · 568
City of Seattle
$131,019 · 20
City of Miami
$117,956 · 8
Illinois
$105,200 · 68

Median total compensation for comparable Electricianroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.

Record list

Employees with this title

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