How much do Lighting Technicians make in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX?

Percentile spread

For Lighting Technicians, the published 10th percentile is $36,800 and the 90th percentile is $68,520. The difference is $31,720, which is 63.8% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $38,450 to the 75th at $66,610, covers $28,160.

The mean annual wage is $51,670, which sits above the median of $49,740. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX median is 26.9% lower than the national median of $68,060 for Lighting Technicians. In 2024 national prices the local median is $50,431, which is 25.9% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 6.4% lower than the Texas median of $53,150.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is 98.629, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $49,740 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Lighting Technicians at $50,431 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Lighting Technicians in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Lighting Technicians accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX (50 of 3,289,720). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (8,900 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.27 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.