High paying construction jobs in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA with no degree

The best paid construction occupations in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA that require no bachelor's degree — a high school diploma, a certificate, or an associate's degree is the typical entry. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA run 0.1% above the national average (2024), so a Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA salary is worth about 1.00× 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, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$80,500
High school diploma or equivalent
$56,500 – $125,01016,920
2Construction and Building Inspectors$72,410
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,100 – $104,4403,020
3Electricians$58,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,380 – $84,00013,430
4Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$58,380
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,900 – $81,5805,470
5Sheet Metal Workers$56,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,800 – $79,9301,550
6Carpenters$50,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,190 – $63,2106,380
7Painters, Construction and Maintenance$49,570
No formal educational credential
$37,900 – $59,0301,340
8Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$49,430
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,610 – $64,6808,360
9Roofers$49,100
No formal educational credential
$33,560 – $64,1101,440
10Pipelayers$47,560
No formal educational credential
$36,980 – $64,4901,000
11Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$46,750
No formal educational credential
$36,050 – $77,8602,290
12Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers$45,500
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,990 – $77,6001,750
13Construction Laborers$42,010
No formal educational credential
$28,280 – $58,14016,460
14Helpers--Electricians$40,220
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,230 – $54,4601,630
15Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$39,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,960 – $45,9701,100

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

#	Occupation	MedianAtlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,500	$56,500 – $125,010	16,920
2	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$72,410	$47,100 – $104,440	3,020
3	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,650	$37,380 – $84,000	13,430
4	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,380	$37,900 – $81,580	5,470
5	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$56,750	$40,800 – $79,930	1,550
6	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$50,680	$37,190 – $63,210	6,380
7	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$49,570	$37,900 – $59,030	1,340
8	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,430	$39,610 – $64,680	8,360
9	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$49,100	$33,560 – $64,110	1,440
10	PipelayersNo formal educational credential	$47,560	$36,980 – $64,490	1,000
11	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$46,750	$36,050 – $77,860	2,290
12	Miscellaneous Construction and Related WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,500	$29,990 – $77,600	1,750
13	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$42,010	$28,280 – $58,140	16,460
14	Helpers--ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,220	$36,230 – $54,460	1,630
15	Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,650	$34,960 – $45,970	1,100

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. 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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