Pennco Tech-Blackwood Electrician Training (Certificate): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Certificate in Electrical and Power Transmission Installers
- Private for-profit school
- Blackwood, NJ
- About 195 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Pennco Tech-Blackwood electrician training graduates earn about what electrician training graduates earn nationally, $33,390 in their first year. The typical graduate leaves with $9,500 in federal loans, close to the national median of $9,250. It is one of the higher-paying electrician training programs in New Jersey.
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.
Five years out, Pennco Tech-Blackwood graduates earn less than the national figure but about $2,889 more than the New Jersey median.
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.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 21% between the first and fifth year. Electricians in New Jersey earn a median of $77,250 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.
Does family income change the outcome?
Graduates who received Pell Grants, which go to students from lower-income families, earned $5,969 less in their first year than other graduates. They also borrowed more. Students who expect to rely on grants should weigh this gap.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $101 a month, or 3.6% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
The government publishes these as ranges to protect privacy. They were measured in 2018 to 2020, partly during the pandemic pause on federal loan payments, so the forbearance share may be higher than usual. Separately, 34 parents took out Parent PLUS loans for these students, with a median of $8,375.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
92% of graduates (142 of 154) were working in New Jersey one year after graduating. Prices in the Philadelphia area are about 3% above the national average, so a $33,390 salary here buys what about $32,558 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 Pennco Tech-Blackwood
Electrician Training ranks 3rd of 4 certificate programs at Pennco Tech-Blackwood by first-year earnings. The top three are HVAC ($39,632), Vehicle Maintenance and Repair ($36,800), and Electrician Training ($33,390).
Other electrician training certificate programs near Blackwood
Common questions
The median graduate earns $33,390 one year after graduating and $40,449 five years after. Electricians in the Philadelphia metro area earn a median of $74,590 across all experience levels.
The median federal loan balance is $9,500, which ranks 3rd lowest of 5 electrician training certificate programs in New Jersey. That works out to about $101 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 28% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 22%. Compare the cost with other New Jersey programs before deciding.
Most do. 92% (142 of 154) 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