High paying construction jobs in Ithaca, NY

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Ithaca, NY. 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 Ithaca, NY run 3.3% above the national average (2024), so a Ithaca, NY salary is worth about 0.97× 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, Ithaca, NY · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$77,860
High school diploma or equivalent
$61,400 – $103,08090
2Electricians$70,720
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,590 – $80,470100
3Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$64,460
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,750 – $118,64070
4Construction and Building Inspectors$64,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,200 – $92,15050
5Carpenters$60,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,080 – $80,030190
6Painters, Construction and Maintenance$59,110
No formal educational credential
$41,430 – $76,27040
7Highway Maintenance Workers$56,770
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,120 – $63,110100
8Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$54,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,750 – $92,32050
9Construction Laborers$46,790
No formal educational credential
$36,280 – $64,030130

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

#	Occupation	MedianIthaca, NY	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$77,860	$61,400 – $103,080	90
2	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$70,720	$50,590 – $80,470	100
3	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,460	$43,750 – $118,640	70
4	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,070	$46,200 – $92,150	50
5	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,680	$47,080 – $80,030	190
6	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$59,110	$41,430 – $76,270	40
7	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$56,770	$43,120 – $63,110	100
8	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,820	$34,750 – $92,320	50
9	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$46,790	$36,280 – $64,030	130

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Ithaca, NY. 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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