Adult and Continuing Education-BCTS Electrician Training (Certificate): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Certificate in Electrical and Power Transmission Installers
- Public school
- Hackensack, NJ
- About 20 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Adult and Continuing Education-BCTS electrician training graduates earn less than graduates of most electrician training programs nationally, $28,266 in their first year. Where this program stands out is debt. The typical graduate leaves with $6,179 in federal loans, less than at 81% of electrician training programs in the country. Debt is low, but pay is also below the New Jersey median of $28,945.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The New Jersey and national columns are the medians across all electrician training certificate programs that report the figure.
Debt and first-year pay at every New Jersey electrician training program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the New Jersey medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $66 a month, or 2.8% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
96% of graduates (25 of 26) were working in New Jersey one year after graduating. Prices in the New York area are about 13% above the national average, so a $28,266 salary here buys what about $25,111 buys in a typical US city.
The median New Jersey electrician earns $77,250, compared with a national median of $63,190. After adjusting for New Jersey prices, that pay is worth about $70,999, which puts New Jersey ahead.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to electrician training, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
$105,510Median pay in New Jersey. 16,230 people work in this job in New Jersey. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, with about 67,000 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent, plus 5 years or more of related work experience.
Electricians
$77,250Median pay in New Jersey. 13,520 people work in this job in New Jersey. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 9% from 2025 to 2035, with about 72,700 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent.
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
$92,680Median pay in New Jersey. 14,930 people work in this job in New Jersey. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 48,900 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent, plus less than 5 years of related work experience.
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
$121,580Median pay in New Jersey. 1,310 people work in this job in New Jersey. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 10% from 2025 to 2035, with about 10,900 openings a year. Typical education to start: high school diploma or equivalent.
About Adult and Continuing Education-BCTS
Electrician Training ranks 3rd of 3 certificate programs at Adult and Continuing Education-BCTS by first-year earnings. The others are HVAC ($44,000) and Plumbing ($30,184).
Other electrician training certificate programs near Hackensack
Common questions
The median graduate earns $28,266 one year after graduating. Electricians in the New York metro area earn a median of $79,020 across all experience levels.
The median federal loan balance is $6,179, which ranks the lowest of 5 electrician training certificate programs in New Jersey. That works out to about $66 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 22% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 22%. If the highest possible early salary is the main goal, several New Jersey programs report higher pay, usually with more debt.
Most do. 96% (25 of 26) were working in New Jersey one year after graduating.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of New Jersey comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the electrician training program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024