City of San Jose / Transportation / Electrician I
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
2 employees hold this title in Transportation. Median total compensation for the role is $133,684, below the department median of $135,422.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, the median wage for Electricians — about 5,480 people — is $91,030. Transportation pays a median base salary of $142,579 for this role, 57% above that figure — about the 80th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Electricians across every employer in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Transportation’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. Transportation’s median base salary is 126% 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 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 8 of 9 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Transportation is $186,465, 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
Electrician I is held in 2 City of San Jose departments. In Transportation, the median of $133,684 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Electrician I role in other City of San Josedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 30 jurisdictions. In City of San Jose, the median of $186,465 ranks #2 of 30. See Electrician across all of City of San Jose →
Median total compensation for comparable Electrician roles 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
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Electrician I/Transportation
Source-specific fields
At Transportation, Daniel Bui serves as a Electrician I. Their 2025 pay totaled $137,379.
Electrician I/Transportation
Source-specific fields
Dung Dinh works as a Electrician I for Transportation. Dung earned $129,989 in 2025.