High paying construction jobs in Elkhart-Goshen, IN with no degree

The best paid construction occupations in Elkhart-Goshen, IN 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 Elkhart-Goshen, IN run 9.7% below the national average (2024), so a Elkhart-Goshen, IN 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, Elkhart-Goshen, IN · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$80,690
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,200 – $127,990460
2Carpenters$65,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,800 – $100,8901,170
3Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$64,730
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,430 – $104,060400
4Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$63,030
No formal educational credential
$47,630 – $80,280240
5Construction and Building Inspectors$62,530
High school diploma or equivalent
$59,170 – $83,62070
6Structural Iron and Steel Workers$62,390
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,860 – $78,48080
7Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$61,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,100 – $93,890290
8Sheet Metal Workers$61,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$25,210 – $101,570650
9Electricians$58,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,560 – $94,970590
10Roofers$58,300
No formal educational credential
$38,690 – $80,360120
11Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators$50,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,040 – $59,48050
12Painters, Construction and Maintenance$48,040
No formal educational credential
$35,550 – $62,170130
13Construction Laborers$47,780
No formal educational credential
$36,270 – $64,790660
14Highway Maintenance Workers$46,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,820 – $64,74050

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

#	Occupation	MedianElkhart-Goshen, IN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,690	$58,200 – $127,990	460
2	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$65,520	$44,800 – $100,890	1,170
3	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,730	$45,430 – $104,060	400
4	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$63,030	$47,630 – $80,280	240
5	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,530	$59,170 – $83,620	70
6	Structural Iron and Steel WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,390	$46,860 – $78,480	80
7	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,710	$46,100 – $93,890	290
8	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,340	$25,210 – $101,570	650
9	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,640	$37,560 – $94,970	590
10	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$58,300	$38,690 – $80,360	120
11	Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$50,280	$40,040 – $59,480	50
12	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$48,040	$35,550 – $62,170	130
13	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$47,780	$36,270 – $64,790	660
14	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,750	$40,820 – $64,740	50

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Elkhart-Goshen, IN. 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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