High paying construction jobs in Morgantown, WV

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Morgantown, WV. 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 Morgantown, WV run 6.7% below the national average (2024), so a Morgantown, WV 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, Morgantown, WV · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$75,430
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,510 – $106,740390
2Electricians$61,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,980 – $78,800320
3Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$58,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,610 – $83,910160
4Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$52,970
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,500 – $75,890530
5Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$50,120
No formal educational credential
$36,820 – $60,48040
6Carpenters$49,160
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,420 – $70,700450
7Highway Maintenance Workers$45,260
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,920 – $53,91030
8Construction Laborers$44,340
No formal educational credential
$30,160 – $59,220660
9Painters, Construction and Maintenance$31,970
No formal educational credential
$25,290 – $55,75060

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

#	Occupation	MedianMorgantown, WV	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$75,430	$51,510 – $106,740	390
2	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,610	$38,980 – $78,800	320
3	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,780	$35,610 – $83,910	160
4	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,970	$36,500 – $75,890	530
5	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$50,120	$36,820 – $60,480	40
6	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,160	$36,420 – $70,700	450
7	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,260	$29,920 – $53,910	30
8	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$44,340	$30,160 – $59,220	660
9	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$31,970	$25,290 – $55,750	60

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