High paying construction jobs in Bowling Green, KY

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Bowling Green, KY. 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 Bowling Green, KY run 9.8% below the national average (2024), so a Bowling Green, KY salary is worth about 1.11× 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, Bowling Green, KY · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$73,090
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,840 – $98,110370
2Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$64,260
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,060 – $93,660160
3Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$60,180
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,900 – $82,400300
4Electricians$55,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,190 – $93,250480
5Carpenters$52,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,600 – $61,520480
6Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$49,380
No formal educational credential
$38,180 – $61,40050
7Roofers$48,680
No formal educational credential
$36,120 – $59,92050
8Sheet Metal Workers$48,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,560 – $86,10070
9Construction and Building Inspectors$45,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,580 – $81,21040
10Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles$44,800
No formal educational credential
$37,430 – $49,41030
11Construction Laborers$41,880
No formal educational credential
$29,850 – $50,050840
12Painters, Construction and Maintenance$40,600
No formal educational credential
$33,410 – $60,02050
13Highway Maintenance Workers$39,350
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,250 – $49,13090

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

#	Occupation	MedianBowling Green, KY	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$73,090	$44,840 – $98,110	370
2	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,260	$46,060 – $93,660	160
3	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,180	$45,900 – $82,400	300
4	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,740	$36,190 – $93,250	480
5	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,680	$37,600 – $61,520	480
6	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$49,380	$38,180 – $61,400	50
7	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$48,680	$36,120 – $59,920	50
8	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,610	$29,560 – $86,100	70
9	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,740	$34,580 – $81,210	40
10	Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard TilesNo formal educational credential	$44,800	$37,430 – $49,410	30
11	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$41,880	$29,850 – $50,050	840
12	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$40,600	$33,410 – $60,020	50
13	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,350	$36,250 – $49,130	90

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Bowling Green, KY. 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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