High paying construction jobs in Akron, OH

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Akron, OH. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single construction job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in Akron, OH run 6.6% below the national average (2024), so a Akron, OH salary is worth about 1.07× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Akron, OH · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$80,660
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,520 – $106,1701,390
2Electricians$77,360
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,360 – $123,1701,360
3Sheet Metal Workers$76,350
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,090 – $94,240320
4Structural Iron and Steel Workers$76,330
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,960 – $82,440210
5Construction and Building Inspectors$67,410
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,030 – $94,340170
6Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators$64,000
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,480 – $89,130170
7Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$63,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,700 – $98,500830
8Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$63,850
No formal educational credential
$44,990 – $81,450390
9Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$63,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,780 – $99,7101,070
10Carpenters$61,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,570 – $79,160980
11Construction Laborers$58,830
No formal educational credential
$37,110 – $79,1101,830
12Glaziers$58,550
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,770 – $74,290100
13Painters, Construction and Maintenance$57,560
No formal educational credential
$37,720 – $74,410460
14Roofers$54,660
No formal educational credential
$39,940 – $77,590370
15Highway Maintenance Workers$51,180
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,920 – $73,860260

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianAkron, OH	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,660	$58,520 – $106,170	1,390
2	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$77,360	$46,360 – $123,170	1,360
3	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,350	$45,090 – $94,240	320
4	Structural Iron and Steel WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,330	$51,960 – $82,440	210
5	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$67,410	$49,030 – $94,340	170
6	Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,000	$35,480 – $89,130	170
7	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,920	$46,700 – $98,500	830
8	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$63,850	$44,990 – $81,450	390
9	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,450	$44,780 – $99,710	1,070
10	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,070	$43,570 – $79,160	980
11	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$58,830	$37,110 – $79,110	1,830
12	GlaziersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,550	$45,770 – $74,290	100
13	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$57,560	$37,720 – $74,410	460
14	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$54,660	$39,940 – $77,590	370
15	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$51,180	$37,920 – $73,860	260

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Akron, OH. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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