High paying construction jobs in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN. 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 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN run 6.6% below the national average (2024), so a Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN salary is worth about 1.07× 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, Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$83,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$57,100 – $118,480430
2Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$83,460
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,350 – $95,360340
3Electricians$78,540
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,730 – $96,840580
4Construction and Building Inspectors$68,090
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,130 – $84,08050
5Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining$65,290
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,080 – $87,59030
6Carpenters$63,050
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,000 – $95,940300
7Sheet Metal Workers$62,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,890 – $102,600140
8Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$62,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,800 – $100,350320
9Brickmasons and Blockmasons$60,320
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,200 – $84,40070
10Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$57,540
No formal educational credential
$47,090 – $73,550130
11Construction Laborers$49,960
No formal educational credential
$36,590 – $74,020760
12Painters, Construction and Maintenance$46,000
No formal educational credential
$36,360 – $61,570130
13Highway Maintenance Workers$44,660
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,300 – $62,880100
14Roofers$44,140
No formal educational credential
$30,580 – $62,32040

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

#	Occupation	MedianLafayette-West Lafayette, IN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$83,520	$57,100 – $118,480	430
2	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$83,460	$47,350 – $95,360	340
3	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,540	$43,730 – $96,840	580
4	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$68,090	$39,130 – $84,080	50
5	Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface MiningHigh school diploma or equivalent	$65,290	$48,080 – $87,590	30
6	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,050	$47,000 – $95,940	300
7	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,900	$42,890 – $102,600	140
8	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,780	$44,800 – $100,350	320
9	Brickmasons and BlockmasonsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,320	$49,200 – $84,400	70
10	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$57,540	$47,090 – $73,550	130
11	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$49,960	$36,590 – $74,020	760
12	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$46,000	$36,360 – $61,570	130
13	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$44,660	$40,300 – $62,880	100
14	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$44,140	$30,580 – $62,320	40

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN. 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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