High paying construction jobs in Muncie, IN with no degree

The best paid construction occupations in Muncie, 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 Muncie, IN run 11.9% below the national average (2024), so a Muncie, IN salary is worth about 1.13× 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, Muncie, IN · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$76,080
High school diploma or equivalent
$54,880 – $106,380130
2Electricians$66,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,070 – $88,150130
3Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$64,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,280 – $84,41050
4Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$59,910
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,770 – $96,55080
5Carpenters$59,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,200 – $74,280160
6Sheet Metal Workers$55,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,920 – $91,56040
7Painters, Construction and Maintenance$49,400
No formal educational credential
$34,320 – $64,79040
8Construction and Building Inspectors$48,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,620 – $77,89040
9Construction Laborers$46,250
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $65,790240
10Highway Maintenance Workers$45,070
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,570 – $60,07050

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

#	Occupation	MedianMuncie, IN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,080	$54,880 – $106,380	130
2	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$66,880	$43,070 – $88,150	130
3	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,790	$47,280 – $84,410	50
4	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,910	$43,770 – $96,550	80
5	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,890	$42,200 – $74,280	160
6	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,280	$43,920 – $91,560	40
7	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$49,400	$34,320 – $64,790	40
8	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,830	$48,620 – $77,890	40
9	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$46,250	$31,200 – $65,790	240
10	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,070	$38,570 – $60,070	50

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