High paying construction jobs in Bay City, MI

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Bay City, MI. 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 Bay City, MI run 8.1% below the national average (2024), so a Bay City, MI salary is worth about 1.09× 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, Bay City, MI · Employed

1Electricians$80,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,230 – $102,960210
2Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$75,310
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,080 – $101,350140
3Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$74,490
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,040 – $106,870110
4First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$72,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,230 – $122,300110
5Painters, Construction and Maintenance$64,200
No formal educational credential
$38,220 – $71,04060
6Sheet Metal Workers$58,060
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,670 – $81,91060
7Carpenters$55,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,230 – $79,28080
8Highway Maintenance Workers$48,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,800 – $58,24040
9Roofers$48,000
No formal educational credential
$36,780 – $68,94050
10Construction Laborers$47,360
No formal educational credential
$32,900 – $61,290250

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

#	Occupation	MedianBay City, MI	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,450	$45,230 – $102,960	210
2	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$75,310	$49,080 – $101,350	140
3	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$74,490	$39,040 – $106,870	110
4	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$72,680	$50,230 – $122,300	110
5	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$64,200	$38,220 – $71,040	60
6	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,060	$38,670 – $81,910	60
7	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,520	$40,230 – $79,280	80
8	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,780	$31,800 – $58,240	40
9	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$48,000	$36,780 – $68,940	50
10	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$47,360	$32,900 – $61,290	250

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Bay City, MI. 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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