High paying construction jobs in Lexington-Fayette, KY with no degree

The best paid construction occupations in Lexington-Fayette, KY 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 Lexington-Fayette, KY run 7.1% below the national average (2024), so a Lexington-Fayette, KY 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, Lexington-Fayette, KY · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$76,490
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,780 – $103,5701,490
2Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$61,870
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,280 – $96,190810
3Brickmasons and Blockmasons$59,540
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,040 – $77,11090
4Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$58,560
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,320 – $77,760760
5Electricians$57,320
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,420 – $78,3301,500
6Construction and Building Inspectors$53,630
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,320 – $129,210270
7Carpenters$52,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,660 – $75,3401,200
8Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$51,820
No formal educational credential
$37,490 – $73,840110
9Painters, Construction and Maintenance$47,730
No formal educational credential
$34,520 – $66,630240
10Highway Maintenance Workers$47,160
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,510 – $50,730180
11Roofers$46,630
No formal educational credential
$39,160 – $65,090230
12Construction Laborers$46,300
No formal educational credential
$35,170 – $61,1101,810
13Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$43,000
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,040 – $55,770150
14Helpers--Electricians$40,310
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,590 – $48,780100

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

#	Occupation	MedianLexington-Fayette, KY	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,490	$50,780 – $103,570	1,490
2	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,870	$45,280 – $96,190	810
3	Brickmasons and BlockmasonsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,540	$38,040 – $77,110	90
4	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,560	$44,320 – $77,760	760
5	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,320	$36,420 – $78,330	1,500
6	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$53,630	$36,320 – $129,210	270
7	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,030	$37,660 – $75,340	1,200
8	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$51,820	$37,490 – $73,840	110
9	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$47,730	$34,520 – $66,630	240
10	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,160	$36,510 – $50,730	180
11	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$46,630	$39,160 – $65,090	230
12	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$46,300	$35,170 – $61,110	1,810
13	Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$43,000	$37,040 – $55,770	150
14	Helpers--ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,310	$35,590 – $48,780	100

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Lexington-Fayette, KY. 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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