Substation Technician Salary: United States

What do these published wages mean for an offer?

Skilled Trades Headhunters reads the May 2025 figures for Substation Technician in National as an offer reference, not a quote for a particular candidate. For Substation Technician in National, the published median for SOC 49-2095, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay, is $103,020 per year. The middle half of the Substation Technician in National wage distribution runs from $81,860 to $118,870, a width of $37,010 per year; that spread shows how much published pay varies within the occupation and area, without assigning experience levels.

For the national Substation Technician comparison, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ reports $96,170 per year while Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA reports $118,990 per year; these are the largest-employment metros with published medians for the occupation, rather than neighboring places to a national estimate. The United States Substation Technician figure pools markets with different work scopes and schedules, so use the area table before setting a local offer.

The highest published medians among the selected national industry rows for Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay, read alongside Substation Technician in National, are Air Transportation at $129,330 per year (NAICS 481000); Scheduled Air Transportation at $129,330 per year (NAICS 481100); Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas at $120,910 per year (NAICS 486200). Those Substation Technician in National industry comparisons are national cross-sections, not local industry estimates; BLS does not give us a metro-by-industry wage cut here, and overlapping industry groups should not be added together.

The Substation Technician in National median was $100,940 per year in May 2024, compared with $103,020 in May 2025, a published difference of $2,080. That Substation Technician in National comparison is between separate BLS releases, not the raise paid to the same workers or a projection of next year's offer. Read the $100,940 and $103,020 Substation Technician in National estimates with both dates visible, because the employers and workers represented by the survey can change.

Before offering $103,020 per year for Substation Technician in National, separate overtime, per diem, lodging and mobilization separately; prevailing wage obligations and union scale depend on the assignment and agreement, not a special BLS traveling-worker percentile. The Substation Technician in National BLS comparison includes ordinary wages and qualifying incentive pay, but leaves overtime, discretionary bonuses, benefits and relocation outside this wage figure. A candidate's take-home pay and the employer's total cost for Substation Technician in National can therefore differ from the median without either number being an error.

The mapping for Substation Technician in National is broader: BLS groups Substation Technician within Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay; it does not publish this niche title or credential level separately. When calibrating a Substation Technician in National opening, the work checks include Breakers, transformers, switching orders; NETA cert or utility substation apprenticeship; ask for evidence of that scope instead of using a percentile as a substitute for qualification. A broader occupation can combine jobs that a Substation Technician in National buyer would screen separately, which is why the badge and SOC remain beside the figures.

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