Belmont, NC has thirty-eight electrician schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the highest ranked school in this group with an electrician program, has a total student population of 24,701. It is the 241st highest ranked school in the USA and the 10th highest in the state of North Carolina (#1 is Duke University).
Electrician students from Belmont schools who go on to become electricians, electrical technologists, maintenance electricians, journeyman electricians, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 579,150 people working as electricians alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $50,850. Also, Helperselectricians make on average $27,870 per year and there are about 90,930 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord-SC area alone, there are 1,640 employed helperselectricians earning an average salary of $27,440. Electricians in this area earn $39,970/yr and there are 3,300 employed.
Belmont lies in Gaston county, which is one of the 64 counties in North Carolina. Overall, the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord-SC area has 837,820 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $21.10/hr average worker wage, and a $43,890 average annual salary. Thus, about 3.939 out of every 1000 jobs in Belmont are held by electricians, and 1.962/1000 are held by helperselectricians.
Of the 38 electrician schools with a 100-mile radius of Belmont, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, ITT Technical Institute–High Point comes out as the most expensive ($22,968/yr) for electrician students, with Rowan-Cabarrus Community College as the lowest, reported at only $76/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Belmont |
Gastonia | NC | 75,340 | 1 | 28.6194 | 5 | 7.5 miles |
Charlotte | NC | 723,514 | 18 | 27.5295 | 455 | 12.1 miles |
Rock Hill | SC | 72,341 | 5 | 30.0256 | 144 | 21.0 miles |
Mooresville | NC | - | 2 | 20.4244 | 6 | 26.9 miles |
Kannapolis | NC | 44,672 | 0 | - | 0 | 29.1 miles |
Hickory | NC | 42,082 | 2 | 18.4574 | 166 | 38.1 miles |
Statesville | NC | - | 1 | 10.6088 | 63 | 38.3 miles |
Salisbury | NC | - | 6 | 27.3664 | 241 | 43.4 miles |
Misenheimer | NC | - | 1 | 21.9215 | 70 | 45.4 miles |
Spartanburg | SC | 40,665 | 7 | 35.0859 | 216 | 54.7 miles |
Winston Salem | NC | - | 7 | 32.3218 | 230 | 74.2 miles |
Tigerville | SC | - | 1 | 63.4383 | 50 | 76.2 miles |
High Point | NC | 105,064 | 3 | 31.8326 | 88 | 77.5 miles |
Banner Elk | NC | - | 1 | 22.4512 | 43 | 79.0 miles |
Hartsville | SC | - | 2 | 23.3042 | 83 | 81.3 miles |
Dobson | NC | - | 1 | 13.9158 | 60 | 81.7 miles |
Columbia | SC | 130,246 | 23 | 20.8948 | 698 | 83.6 miles |
Asheville | NC | 75,836 | 3 | 28.8268 | 140 | 88.2 miles |
Greensboro | NC | 259,523 | 7 | 44.9987 | 387 | 89.2 miles |
Laurinburg | NC | - | 1 | 18.8047 | 40 | 94.9 miles |
Brevard | NC | - | 1 | 17.072 | 34 | 95.9 miles |