Electrical Cost Calculator for Tennessee - Free 2026 Cost Estimates

Tennessee Electrical Labor Costs — Verified from BLS OEWS (2025)

Every figure on this page is a published U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics value. Last verified 2026-07-01.

In Tennessee, electricians — the core trade for electrical work — earn a mean wage of $30.55/hr ($63,540 per year) in the 2025 BLS OEWS release. That is 11% below the national average (national mean $71,490 per year). Tennessee employs about 17,070 electricians statewide. Related trades that price into a typical electrical job include first-line supervisors of construction trades ($76,830/yr). Because labor is the largest variable cost on most electrical projects, these published state wage levels are the biggest single reason electrical costs differ between Tennessee and other states. Every figure here is a mean value published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and is refreshed automatically when BLS releases new OEWS data.

Across the trades that touch a typical electrical job in Tennessee, BLS reports mean wages of electricians at $63,540 per year ($30.55/hr); first-line supervisors of construction trades at $76,830 per year ($36.94/hr). The spread between first-line supervisors of construction trades ($76,830) and electricians ($63,540) reflects differences in skill, certification, and supervisory responsibility on Tennessee job sites, and it is why a detailed, line-item estimate beats a single blended rate when you are budgeting electrical work.

Half of Tennessee electricians earn less than the median of $61,090 per year — below the $63,540 mean, which a smaller number of higher earners pulls upward. For budgeting, the median is often the more realistic figure for routine electrical crews. BLS counts roughly 17,070 electricians, 17,770 first-line supervisors of construction trades employed across Tennessee, a measure of how deep the local electrical-trade labor pool is and how much competition for crews you can expect when scheduling work.

When you budget a electrical job in Tennessee, treat these BLS wage levels as the labor-rate floor: a crew's billed rate adds overhead, insurance, equipment, and margin on top of the $30.55/hr mean wage shown above. Because Tennessee's electricians wages sit 11% below the national average, a electrical quote that comes in far below these published rates is worth a second look — labor that cheap usually signals a different scope, materials, or crew experience. Use the calculator on this page to combine these Tennessee labor rates with your project's material quantities for a complete estimate.

Wages are statewide means published by BLS and reflect labor cost only — not the total installed cost of a project. Use the calculator below for a full materials-and-labor estimate, and always obtain written bids from licensed Tennessee contractors.