Harrisburg Area Community College Electrician Training (Associate's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Associate's in Electrical and Power Transmission Installers
- Public college
- Harrisburg, PA
- About 13 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Harrisburg Area Community College electrician training graduates earn less than graduates of most electrician training programs nationally, $36,532 in their first year. The typical graduate leaves with $15,938 in federal loans, close to the national median of $12,000. Several Pennsylvania programs report higher pay.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Pennsylvania and national columns are the medians across all electrician training associate's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Harrisburg Area Community College graduates earn less than the national figure and about the same as the Pennsylvania median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Pennsylvania electrician training program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Pennsylvania medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 37% between the first and fifth year. Electricians in Pennsylvania earn a median of $67,600 across all experience levels, which shows how much room there is to grow after the first few years.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate. BLS figures cover electricians at every experience level.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $169 a month, or 5.6% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
Prices in the Harrisburg area are about 1% below the national average, so a $36,532 salary here buys what about $37,032 buys in a typical US city.
The median Pennsylvania electrician earns $67,600, compared with a national median of $63,190. After adjusting for Pennsylvania prices, that pay is worth about $69,282, which puts Pennsylvania 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
$81,540Median pay in Pennsylvania. 26,860 people work in this job in Pennsylvania. 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
$67,600Median pay in Pennsylvania. 22,730 people work in this job in Pennsylvania. 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
$79,400Median pay in Pennsylvania. 20,220 people work in this job in Pennsylvania. 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
$106,230Median pay in Pennsylvania. 4,150 people work in this job in Pennsylvania. 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 Harrisburg Area Community College
Electrician Training ranks 15th of 20 associate's programs at Harrisburg Area Community College by first-year earnings. The top three are Nursing ($73,041), Diagnostic and Treatment Professions ($62,227), and Medical Laboratory Science ($55,875).
Common questions
The median graduate earns $36,532 one year after graduating and $50,050 five years after. Electricians in the Harrisburg metro area earn a median of $71,820 across all experience levels.
The median federal loan balance is $15,938, which ranks 4th lowest of 5 electrician training associate's programs in Pennsylvania. That works out to about $169 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 44% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 28%. Compare the cost with other Pennsylvania programs before deciding.
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 Pennsylvania 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