High paying construction jobs in Iowa City, IA

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Iowa City, IA. 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 Iowa City, IA run 8.5% below the national average (2024), so a Iowa City, IA 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, Iowa City, IA · Employed

1Construction and Building Inspectors$78,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,010 – $89,02060
2First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$75,380
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,960 – $99,780360
3Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$61,350
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,180 – $97,930190
4Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$60,530
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,990 – $79,080210
5Highway Maintenance Workers$60,110
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,090 – $75,300150
6Electricians$59,510
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,350 – $83,910370
7Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$58,130
No formal educational credential
$44,490 – $74,67080
8Carpenters$49,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,060 – $71,880360
9Construction Laborers$47,940
No formal educational credential
$37,500 – $74,570800
10Painters, Construction and Maintenance$44,960
No formal educational credential
$36,140 – $63,27090

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

#	Occupation	MedianIowa City, IA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,030	$51,010 – $89,020	60
2	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$75,380	$50,960 – $99,780	360
3	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,350	$45,180 – $97,930	190
4	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,530	$49,990 – $79,080	210
5	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,110	$48,090 – $75,300	150
6	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,510	$39,350 – $83,910	370
7	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$58,130	$44,490 – $74,670	80
8	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,680	$37,060 – $71,880	360
9	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$47,940	$37,500 – $74,570	800
10	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$44,960	$36,140 – $63,270	90

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