High paying construction jobs in State College, PA

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in State College, PA. 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 State College, PA run 3.2% below the national average (2024), so a State College, PA salary is worth about 1.03× 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, State College, PA · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$78,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$56,360 – $116,390340
2Construction and Building Inspectors$66,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,830 – $91,29050
3Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$61,040
No formal educational credential
$47,560 – $72,61050
4Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$60,540
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,260 – $97,690460
5Electricians$57,600
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,320 – $75,740180
6Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$57,560
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,580 – $94,510130
7Glaziers$56,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,340 – $91,91040
8Carpenters$55,690
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,340 – $81,710350
9Construction Laborers$53,420
No formal educational credential
$37,990 – $71,300620
10Highway Maintenance Workers$47,410
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,120 – $59,590150
11Painters, Construction and Maintenance$46,570
No formal educational credential
$36,130 – $61,29090

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

#	Occupation	MedianState College, PA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,880	$56,360 – $116,390	340
2	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$66,940	$50,830 – $91,290	50
3	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$61,040	$47,560 – $72,610	50
4	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,540	$37,260 – $97,690	460
5	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,600	$44,320 – $75,740	180
6	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,560	$44,580 – $94,510	130
7	GlaziersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$56,740	$37,340 – $91,910	40
8	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,690	$39,340 – $81,710	350
9	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$53,420	$37,990 – $71,300	620
10	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,410	$37,120 – $59,590	150
11	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$46,570	$36,130 – $61,290	90

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in State College, PA. 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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