What Is the Average Salary for an SRP Lineman?
SRP is a power company in Arizona that serves the Phoenix area. Linemen who build, maintain and repair power lines for SRP earn competitive wages that are on par or above the national average.
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What is SRP?
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SRP stands for the Salt River Project, the largest and oldest utility in the Phoenix metropolitan area. As of fiscal 2009, the SRP Power District served 933,771 customers and the electrical services area covered 2,900 square miles. The company operates 11 major power plants and other generating stations powered by thermal, nuclear, natural gas and hydroelectric power sources. The SRP Power District is a political subdivision of the state of Arizona. As of fiscal 2009, it employed 4,461 workers.
SRP Linemen Duties
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The job of SRP linemen is to build, maintain and repair the company's vast network of power lines in the Phoenix metropolitan area. It often requires linemen to climb great heights on transmission towers and utility poles to repair, replace and maintain power lines and transformers, rigors that make the job physically demanding . Working as a linemen can be dangerous -- since it places workers in close proximity to high-voltage power lines -- and requires some education and on-the-job training. According to the SRP website, linemen need to complete a state or federally approved apprenticeship program or equivalment formal training of approximately 8,000 work hours to qualify for a job with SRP. An additional demand for SRP linemen is working in the desert heat of Phoenix in the summer months.
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SRP Linemen Salaries
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SRP does not disclose the salaries it pays linemen other than to say that linemen with the company earn "excellent pay." A list of SRP salaries on job search website glassdoor.com does not list the job of lineman specifically but does estimate that SRP engineering technicians earn annual salaries ranging from $58,000 to $63,000 per year. The SRP website lists a number of benefits that come with being employed as a linemen, including full health and dental benefits and a 401K plan on top of a base salary.
How Salaries Compare to National Average
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the average linemen working for a power company had a median annual salary of $60,520 as of May 2010. In comparison, the median salary for linemen in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area as of May 2010 was $64,340, a salary near the top end of the range glassdoor.com listed for SRP engineering technicians. That salary is well above the median salary of $41,030 that linemen earn in Victoria, Texas but below the median salary of $82,680 in the Riverside-San Bernardino area of California.
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