ELECTRICIAN PRICING GUIDE
How much does an electrician charge per hour?
The 2026 US hourly rates for apprentices, journeymen and masters, the service call fee, flat prices for common jobs and the big projects — and a free calculator that turns them into a price you can put on your website.
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The short answer
Electricians charge $40 to $100 an hour in 2026: about $40 to $60 for an apprentice, $60 to $90 for a journeyman and $90 to $100 or more for a master, plus a service call fee of $100 to $200 (Housecall Pro, October 2026).
Common jobs are priced flat: $85 to $200 to install or replace a switch, $200 to $300 for an outlet, $140 to $350 for a ceiling fan, $570 to $1,000 for a dedicated circuit and $1,200 to $2,000 for a panel upgrade (Housecall Pro). Jobber puts an EV charger installation at $800 to $2,500 and a main panel upgrade at $2,000 to $4,500 (May 2026).
Emergency and after-hours work carries an extra $100 to $200 fee, and the target margin is 10% to 20% per job (Housecall Pro); Jobber calls 12% to 18% healthy.
Charge hourly for troubleshooting and anything you can't size from the driveway, a flat price for the jobs you do every week — and put the service call fee and your “from” prices on your website, because the first question every homeowner asks is what the visit costs.
FREE PRICE CALCULATOR
What should I charge for this job?
Pick hourly work at your license level and the time it takes, or a common job or project for a flat price. Tick the service call and the emergency fee when they apply. The range uses the published 2026 US rates in the table below.
Suggested price
$80–$120
hourly — apprentice, 2 hours
A starting range from published US rates, before materials — not a quote for a customer. Check it against your own costs (the formula below), your local market and your state's licensing rules before you put it on your price list.
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RATES · OCTOBER 2026
Electrician rates and job prices (2026)
Typical US residential rates and flat prices. Panel upgrades vary most: Housecall Pro puts one at $1,200–$2,000 (October 2026) and Jobber at $2,000–$4,500 (May 2026) — size, service entrance and permits decide which end you're at. Whole-house rewiring runs from $1,500–$10,000 (Housecall Pro) to $15,000–$25,000 (Jobber) with the size of the house.
| The job | Typical US price · source |
|---|---|
| Hourly — apprentice | $40–$60 per hour · about $80–$120 for 2 hours · Housecall Pro |
| Hourly — journeyman | $60–$90 per hour · about $120–$180 for 2 hours · Housecall Pro |
| Hourly — master electrician | $90–$100 per hour · about $180–$200 for 2 hours · Housecall Pro |
| Common job (flat price) | Switch install or replacement: $85–$200 · Doorbell or smoke detector install: $90–$250 · Ceiling fan installation: $140–$350 · Outlet install or replacement: $200–$300 · Dedicated circuit: $570–$1,000 · Panel upgrade: $1,200–$2,000 · Hot tub wiring: $1,900–$2,400 · Outdoor lighting: $2,000–$6,000 · Whole-house rewiring: $1,500–$10,000 · Housecall Pro |
| Larger project (flat price) | Lights and outlets, a room's worth: $150–$500 · EV charger installation: $800–$2,500 · Main panel upgrade: $2,000–$4,500 · Whole-house rewiring: $15,000–$25,000 · Jobber |
| Hourly, apprentice to master | $40–$100 an hour · Housecall Pro |
Rates read off each publisher's page in October 2026. The calculator above uses exactly these numbers. Full source list below.
ADD-ONS AND ADJUSTMENTS
What to charge for the visit and the emergency
The drive and the hour are part of the job — charge each as its own line.
| What | Typical US price · source |
|---|---|
| Service call fee | +$100–$200 · Housecall Pro |
| Emergency or after-hours fee | +$100–$200 · Housecall Pro |
Where a row shows a sum (a rate × a quantity, or a percentage worked out from published dollar ranges), the arithmetic is ours and the inputs are the publisher's.
THE PRICING FORMULA
How to price an electrical job
Six steps from your costs to the number on your price list.
Work out your overhead per hour
Annual overhead ÷ billable hours. Housecall Pro's example: $90,000 over 3,000 billable hours is $30 an hour; Jobber's smaller shop: $4,000 a month over 500 hours is $8.
Price labor at your license level
$40–$60 an hour for an apprentice, $60–$90 for a journeyman, $90–$100 or more for a master (Housecall Pro) — the rate the customer pays, not the wage.
Add materials and the markup
Wire, boxes, breakers and fixtures at cost plus your markup; Jobber's example carries overhead at 20% of labor and materials.
Set the margin
10%–20% per job (Housecall Pro); Jobber calls 12%–18% healthy and prices as (labor + materials + overhead) × 1.15 for a 15% target.
Charge the service call and the emergency
$100–$200 for the service call, and another $100–$200 for emergency or after-hours work (Housecall Pro).
Offer good, better, best
Jobber's example prices a kitchen lighting upgrade three ways — $1,250, $1,850 and $2,400 — so the customer picks a scope instead of saying no to one number.
The formula, worked through
Say it's the electrical work for a bathroom remodel. Jobber's worked example: materials $450, eight hours of labor at $29.51 is $236.08, overhead at 20% of labor and materials is $137.22 — $823.30 in cost.
At a 15% target, the markup is 15% of that: $946.80 for the job (Jobber, May 2026).
Check it against the market the same way: a panel upgrade at Housecall Pro's $1,200–$2,000, an EV charger at Jobber's $800–$2,500. If your number lands above the range, look at your hours before you cut the price.
The figures are Jobber's example — its $29.51 is the average electrician's wage, not a business's rate; your rate, overhead and margin are what make it yours.
What to charge in your area
The ranges on this page are US national figures. Prices follow local costs: the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts overall prices in California at 110.7 against a US average of 100, and Arkansas at 86.9 (2024 regional price parities, released February 2026). So a $90 an hour rate in an average market is about $100 in California and about $78 in Arkansas.
Housecall Pro notes that licensed rates have risen with the shortage of electricians and demand for panel, EV charger and backup power work (October 2026) — the markets with the most new chargers and solar pay the most for a master.
In the US, electrical work is licensed by each state and often by the city, and most places let only a licensed electrician or contractor pull a permit — check your state board before you advertise a service. Outside the US, treat the ranges as a shape, not a price: hourly by qualification, a service call for the visit, flat prices for routine jobs and more after hours hold everywhere.
Put your prices on your website
A price list — even “from” prices — answers a customer's first question before they pick up the phone, and it's the line an AI assistant can quote when someone asks what an electrician costs near them.
If you build your site with Zarla, tell the editor “add a pricing section: outlets from $200, ceiling fans from $140, service calls from $100” and your prices go on the site, in a section you can edit any time. Want to see a finished site first? Browse electrician website templates or see how Zarla builds electrician websites.
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Electrician rates: common questions
$40–$100 an hour in 2026: $40–$60 for an apprentice, $60–$90 for a journeyman and $90–$100 or more for a master (Housecall Pro, October 2026), plus a $100–$200 service call fee. The calculator above works out any number of hours at each level.
$100–$200, billed separately from the hourly rate (Housecall Pro). It covers the drive and the first look; many electricians credit it toward the job when the customer goes ahead.
$200–$300 to install or replace an outlet, and $85–$200 for a switch (Housecall Pro). Jobber puts a room's worth of lights and outlets at $150–$500.
$140–$350 (Housecall Pro). Jobber's example prices three fans at $375 per unit, $232.80 flat or $132.80 hourly — the same job, three ways to say it.
$1,200–$2,000 (Housecall Pro, October 2026) or $2,000–$4,500 (Jobber, May 2026); the size of the service and the permit decide which end. A dedicated circuit alone is $570–$1,000.
$800–$2,500 (Jobber, May 2026), depending on the distance from the panel and whether the panel needs upgrading first.
An extra $100–$200 emergency or after-hours fee on top of the job (Housecall Pro). Say so on your website so the Sunday call isn't a surprise on either side.
Yes — your hourly rate, your service call fee and “from” prices for outlets, fans and panels. It answers the first question before the call and gives an AI assistant a real number to quote. On a Zarla site, tell the editor “add a pricing section” with your prices, and change them any time.
Where these numbers come from
Every range on this page is read off a published source, dated below. They're US figures for residential work — typical, not a rule; your costs and your market come first.
- Housecall Pro — How to Price Electrical Work (2026) — dated October 2026, read October 2026
- Jobber — How to Estimate Electrical Work: A Complete Guide to Pricing, Bidding & Quoting Electrical Jobs — dated May 2026, read October 2026
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — regional price parities by state, 2024 — dated February 2026, read September 2026
Put your electrician prices on your website
Add your town and your business name, and Zarla builds the site from that one line. Your prices go in a pricing section you edit by chat.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.