High paying construction jobs in Monroe, MI with no degree

The best paid construction occupations in Monroe, MI 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 Monroe, MI run 6.5% below the national average (2024), so a Monroe, MI salary is worth about 1.07× 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, Monroe, MI · Employed

1Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$80,700
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,610 – $102,160250
2Electricians$80,620
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,800 – $110,390150
3First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$76,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$55,570 – $115,180200
4Construction and Building Inspectors$69,570
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,890 – $99,81040
5Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$60,910
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,510 – $85,880140
6Carpenters$59,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,910 – $70,92090
7Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$57,710
No formal educational credential
$37,090 – $75,070130
8Highway Maintenance Workers$54,580
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,910 – $60,20050
9Construction Laborers$51,200
No formal educational credential
$37,100 – $71,580330

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

#	Occupation	MedianMonroe, MI	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,700	$45,610 – $102,160	250
2	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,620	$46,800 – $110,390	150
3	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,880	$55,570 – $115,180	200
4	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$69,570	$51,890 – $99,810	40
5	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,910	$36,510 – $85,880	140
6	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,750	$39,910 – $70,920	90
7	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$57,710	$37,090 – $75,070	130
8	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,580	$36,910 – $60,200	50
9	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$51,200	$37,100 – $71,580	330

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