High paying construction jobs in Kingston, NY

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Kingston, 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 Kingston, NY run 0.7% above the national average (2024), so a Kingston, NY salary is worth about 0.99× 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, Kingston, NY · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$76,580
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,670 – $120,640220
2Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$70,370
High school diploma or equivalent
$52,010 – $111,630150
3Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$70,190
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,880 – $130,810180
4Electricians$69,440
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,980 – $104,400280
5Sheet Metal Workers$67,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,410 – $106,80050
6Construction and Building Inspectors$62,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,770 – $105,52070
7Carpenters$61,140
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,690 – $89,100280
8Highway Maintenance Workers$60,460
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,280 – $66,370290
9Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$56,930
No formal educational credential
$44,550 – $73,78050
10Painters, Construction and Maintenance$49,570
No formal educational credential
$39,110 – $73,950100
11Construction Laborers$49,520
No formal educational credential
$36,140 – $80,230430

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

#	Occupation	MedianKingston, NY	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,580	$50,670 – $120,640	220
2	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$70,370	$52,010 – $111,630	150
3	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$70,190	$43,880 – $130,810	180
4	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$69,440	$44,980 – $104,400	280
5	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$67,750	$37,410 – $106,800	50
6	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,940	$46,770 – $105,520	70
7	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,140	$45,690 – $89,100	280
8	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,460	$48,280 – $66,370	290
9	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$56,930	$44,550 – $73,780	50
10	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$49,570	$39,110 – $73,950	100
11	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$49,520	$36,140 – $80,230	430

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