High paying construction jobs in Great Falls, MT

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Great Falls, MT. 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 Great Falls, MT run 3.2% below the national average (2024), so a Great Falls, MT salary is worth about 1.03× 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, Great Falls, MT · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$77,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$55,600 – $98,540250
2Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$77,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,010 – $98,150240
3Electricians$76,960
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,800 – $94,670170
4Construction and Building Inspectors$71,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$61,110 – $97,47030
5Highway Maintenance Workers$62,700
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,270 – $62,70040
6Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$62,090
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,830 – $87,090170
7Carpenters$58,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,320 – $74,590370
8Painters, Construction and Maintenance$58,260
No formal educational credential
$37,710 – $65,73070
9Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$57,680
No formal educational credential
$45,960 – $76,29050
10Sheet Metal Workers$57,480
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,630 – $81,79070
11Roofers$49,920
No formal educational credential
$37,440 – $70,72040
12Construction Laborers$49,300
No formal educational credential
$36,330 – $71,190350
13Glaziers$39,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,490 – $57,10050

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

#	Occupation	MedianGreat Falls, MT	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$77,900	$55,600 – $98,540	250
2	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$77,100	$48,010 – $98,150	240
3	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,960	$48,800 – $94,670	170
4	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$71,280	$61,110 – $97,470	30
5	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,700	$46,270 – $62,700	40
6	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,090	$49,830 – $87,090	170
7	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,790	$44,320 – $74,590	370
8	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$58,260	$37,710 – $65,730	70
9	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$57,680	$45,960 – $76,290	50
10	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,480	$43,630 – $81,790	70
11	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$49,920	$37,440 – $70,720	40
12	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$49,300	$36,330 – $71,190	350
13	GlaziersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,470	$33,490 – $57,100	50

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Great Falls, MT. 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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