San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia Electrician Training (Certificate): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Certificate in Electrical and Power Transmission Installers
- Private for-profit college
- Visalia, CA
College Scorecard June 2026 release ยท BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia electrician training graduates earn about what electrician training graduates earn nationally, $43,388 in their first year. Debt is high. The typical graduate leaves with $12,727 in federal loans, more than at 85% of electrician training programs in the country. It is one of the higher-paying electrician training programs in California.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The California and national columns are the medians across all electrician training certificate programs that report the figure.
Debt and first-year pay at every California electrician training program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the California medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
Does family income change the outcome?
Graduates who received Pell Grants, which go to students from lower-income families, earned about the same in their first year as other graduates, but borrowed more: a median of $12,760 against $10,417.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $135 a month, or 3.7% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
72 parents took out Parent PLUS loans for these students, with a median of $8,377.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
93% of graduates (299 of 320) were working in California one year after graduating. Prices in the Visalia area are about the same as the national average.
The median California electrician earns $76,160, compared with a national median of $63,190. After adjusting for California prices, that pay is worth about $68,786, which puts California 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
$97,680Median pay in California. 71,750 people work in this job in California. 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
$76,160Median pay in California. 73,310 people work in this job in California. 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
$93,660Median pay in California. 51,670 people work in this job in California. 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
$129,040Median pay in California. 8,930 people work in this job in California. 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 San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia
Electrician Training ranks 3rd of 11 certificate programs at San Joaquin Valley College-Visalia by first-year earnings. The top three are Heavy Equipment Maintenance ($55,314), Vehicle Maintenance and Repair ($54,977), and Electrician Training ($43,388).
Common questions
The median graduate earns $43,388 one year after graduating. Electricians in the Visalia metro area earn a median of $64,390 across all experience levels.
The median federal loan balance is $12,727, which ranks 6th lowest of 6 electrician training certificate programs in California. That works out to about $135 a month over 10 years.
It depends on your other options. Debt equals 29% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 22%. Compare the cost with other California programs before deciding.
Most do. 93% (299 of 320) were working in California 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 California 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