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Data center technician salary

Data center work is two jobs with two pay scales. Data center technicians, who do the low voltage work, are offered a median of $32.50 an hour in job posts on Best Electrician Jobs (33 posts from 17 employers). Data center electricians, who do the power work, are offered a median of $45.00 (17 posts from 10 employers).

Technician median
$32.50/hr
Technician middle half
$25.79 to $40.06/hr
Technician at 40 hours a week
About $67,600/yr
Electrician median
$45.00/hr
Electrician at 40 hours a week
About $93,600/yr

Figures as of . How they are made

Technician or electrician: two different jobs

The titles get mixed up, and the gap between them is $12.50 an hour at the median, so it pays to know which job is which.

Posted hourly pay for data center work
JobMedianMiddle halfPosts
Data center electrician$45.00Too few posts17
Data center technician$32.50$25.79 to $40.0633

Data center electricians

Data center electricians do the power work: switchgear, UPS systems, batteries, generators and the distribution that feeds the racks. It is electrician work, and it pays like it. The posted median of $45.00 is $5.35 above the median journeyman post on the board.

At 40 hours a week that is about $93,600 a year. The six-figure totals in headlines come from hours, not rates: long overtime weeks, travel and per diem on large builds. Our calculation shows what it takes to reach $280,000.

Data center technicians

Data center technicians do the low voltage work: racking and stacking equipment, running and terminating fiber and copper, dressing and labeling cable, and testing it. 30 of the 33 technician posts here mention racking, patching, terminating or dressing cable, and 9 mention BICSI. Some technician posts are facilities or IT support roles, sometimes called remote hands.

16 of the 33 technician posts mention travel. For technician pay next to other low voltage work, see low voltage pay by specialty.

What the government data can and can't tell you

BLS has no data center technician occupation. The closest series, telecommunications equipment installers, had a national median of $30.72 an hour (BLS, SOC 49-2022, May 2025), and electricians $30.38 (BLS, SOC 47-2111, May 2025). Neither isolates data center work, which is why this page relies on what data center employers post.

Setting data center pay

Price the job you actually have. If the work is cabling and racking, the posted market is $25.79 to $40.06 an hour. If it is power work, you are competing with data center electrician posts at a median of $45.00, and with every other build nearby.

Put the work in the title and the first lines of the post: low voltage or power, the systems involved, and whether the job travels.

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Questions

How much does a data center technician make?

Data center technician posts on Best Electrician Jobs offer a median of $32.50 an hour, about $67,600 a year at 40 hours a week (33 posts from 17 employers).

How much does a data center electrician make?

Data center electrician posts offer a median of $45.00 an hour, about $93,600 a year at 40 hours a week (17 posts from 10 employers). Overtime, travel and per diem can add a great deal on large builds.

Is a data center technician an electrician?

Usually not. Most data center technician posts are low voltage work: racking equipment and running, terminating and dressing cable. Data center electricians do the power work and are paid as electricians.

Can data center electricians make $280,000?

Some can, with long overtime weeks, travel and per diem on large builds. It is a total for heavy hours, not a base salary. See our calculation for the details.

How these figures are made

  • Every posted figure comes from job posts on Best Electrician Jobs where the employer entered a pay range. Pay that appears only inside a job description is not counted.
  • Only hourly pay is counted, using the midpoint of each range. Ranges under $15 or over $120 an hour are dropped, and so are ranges whose top is more than twice the bottom, because those span different jobs.
  • A job posted in several cities counts once, and no company counts more than three times in any figure.
  • Jobs are grouped by title. A row appears only with at least 10 posts from 5 employers. A headline figure needs 20 posts from 10 employers, and a middle-half range needs 30 posts.
  • Yearly figures are the hourly rate times 2,080 hours, rounded to the nearest $100.
  • Posted pay is what employers offer in their ads, not what workers end up earning. Government figures come from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2025.

Figures as of .

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