While your pay rate will depend on who sponsors your training, PayScale.com reported apprentice-level linemen earning between $28,200 and $72,414 a year in May 2018. After completing the apprentice stage and becoming a journeyman, you can make between $47,100 and $104,482 a year, according to PayScale.com.

Do you get paid for lineman school?

The lowest paid 10 percent, presumably apprentices, earned $38,200 per year, or $18.37 per hour. ... In 2020 a beginning apprentice in the TVA's Lineman Apprentice Program earned approximately 66 percent of a journeyman's wages at $ $42,410 per year.

Does being a lineman pay well?

An electrical lineman's median annual income was $69,380 in May 2017, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics; half made more, and half made less money. The bottom 10 percent of electrical linemen made under $37,600, while the top 10 percent earned very generous wages over $99,860.