High paying construction jobs in Lawrence, KS

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Lawrence, KS. 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 Lawrence, KS run 9.8% below the national average (2024), so a Lawrence, KS salary is worth about 1.11× 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, Lawrence, KS · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$78,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,730 – $102,760200
2Construction and Building Inspectors$76,080
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,380 – $94,83030
3Electricians$61,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,140 – $76,910140
4Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$60,230
No formal educational credential
$42,920 – $83,640100
5Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$60,080
High school diploma or equivalent
$41,870 – $92,860120
6Carpenters$59,800
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,180 – $95,450280
7Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$59,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,840 – $106,610130
8Highway Maintenance Workers$53,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,100 – $75,19040
9Construction Laborers$47,680
No formal educational credential
$33,060 – $71,530280
10Painters, Construction and Maintenance$39,190
No formal educational credential
$31,660 – $55,72090

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

#	Occupation	MedianLawrence, KS	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,920	$58,730 – $102,760	200
2	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,080	$58,380 – $94,830	30
3	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,070	$37,140 – $76,910	140
4	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$60,230	$42,920 – $83,640	100
5	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,080	$41,870 – $92,860	120
6	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,800	$47,180 – $95,450	280
7	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,280	$36,840 – $106,610	130
8	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$53,880	$45,100 – $75,190	40
9	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$47,680	$33,060 – $71,530	280
10	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$39,190	$31,660 – $55,720	90

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