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What power system electricians make
Journeyperson
$97,000
Early apprentice
$75,000
Senior utility
$125,000
Job Bank's national median is $46.55 an hour, about $97,000 a year full time. Even the low figure, $36.26 an hour, is well above most trades, because nearly all of these jobs are at utilities and large generators with union contracts. Storm and outage overtime adds more.