New York City / Fire Department / Electrician
Job-title file
Electrician
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
13 employees hold this title in Fire Department. Median total compensation for the role is $216,765, above the department median of $126,036.
- Employees
- 13
- Total payroll
- $2.3M
- Role median
- $216,765
- Agency median
- $126,036
- Comparison
- Above
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 13 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area
Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Electricians — about 36,550 people — is $79,020. Fire Department pays a median base salary of $122,378 for this role, 55% above that figure — about the 73rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Fire Department sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Electricians across every employer in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Fire Department’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. Fire Department’s median base salary is 94% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 11 of 13 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Fire Department is $216,765, 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 New York City
Electrician is held in 21 New York City departments. In Fire Department, the median of $216,765 ranks #1 of 21.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Electrician role in other New York Citydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Electrician beyond New York City
This role is reported in 30 jurisdictions. In New York City, the median of $151,263 ranks #4 of 30. See Electrician across all of New York City →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
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.
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