High paying construction jobs in Wausau, WI

Every construction occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Wausau, WI. 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 Wausau, WI run 7.3% below the national average (2024), so a Wausau, WI salary is worth about 1.08× 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, Wausau, WI · Employed

1Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$90,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,830 – $96,020200
2Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$86,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,380 – $103,440260
3Electricians$78,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$41,530 – $86,790480
4Sheet Metal Workers$77,330
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,540 – $91,970170
5First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$75,980
High school diploma or equivalent
$52,060 – $110,710240
6Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$62,020
No formal educational credential
$48,640 – $83,300110
7Highway Maintenance Workers$52,820
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,680 – $62,400120
8Construction Laborers$52,620
No formal educational credential
$38,910 – $79,060510
9Carpenters$49,990
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,230 – $79,010370
10Painters, Construction and Maintenance$47,640
No formal educational credential
$35,970 – $71,74050

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

#	Occupation	MedianWausau, WI	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$90,900	$49,830 – $96,020	200
2	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$86,750	$50,380 – $103,440	260
3	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,680	$41,530 – $86,790	480
4	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$77,330	$42,540 – $91,970	170
5	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$75,980	$52,060 – $110,710	240
6	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$62,020	$48,640 – $83,300	110
7	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,820	$46,680 – $62,400	120
8	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$52,620	$38,910 – $79,060	510
9	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,990	$40,230 – $79,010	370
10	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$47,640	$35,970 – $71,740	50

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