High paying construction jobs in Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL with no degree

The best paid construction occupations in Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL 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 Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL run 2.7% below the national average (2024), so a Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL salary is worth about 1.03× 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, Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$72,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,250 – $101,970910
2Construction and Building Inspectors$67,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,260 – $96,100210
3Electricians$52,900
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,350 – $72,390550
4Carpenters$49,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,680 – $68,940400
5Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$48,620
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,190 – $61,870500
6Sheet Metal Workers$47,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,440 – $64,03050
7Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$47,800
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,000 – $69,700510
8Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$47,370
No formal educational credential
$37,020 – $60,150130
9Glaziers$47,190
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,830 – $64,72060
10Pipelayers$45,950
No formal educational credential
$35,960 – $56,18080
11Painters, Construction and Maintenance$45,820
No formal educational credential
$33,410 – $56,540210
12Roofers$45,690
No formal educational credential
$32,120 – $60,800160
13Construction Laborers$43,250
No formal educational credential
$34,070 – $56,6201,130
14Helpers--Electricians$38,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,230 – $48,84090
15Highway Maintenance Workers$37,180
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,770 – $46,90090

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

#	Occupation	MedianPanama City-Panama City Beach, FL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$72,740	$47,250 – $101,970	910
2	Construction and Building InspectorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$67,650	$44,260 – $96,100	210
3	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,900	$38,350 – $72,390	550
4	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$49,650	$36,680 – $68,940	400
5	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,620	$37,190 – $61,870	500
6	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,830	$37,440 – $64,030	50
7	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,800	$32,000 – $69,700	510
8	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$47,370	$37,020 – $60,150	130
9	GlaziersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,190	$35,830 – $64,720	60
10	PipelayersNo formal educational credential	$45,950	$35,960 – $56,180	80
11	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$45,820	$33,410 – $56,540	210
12	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$45,690	$32,120 – $60,800	160
13	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$43,250	$34,070 – $56,620	1,130
14	Helpers--ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,940	$35,230 – $48,840	90
15	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,180	$33,770 – $46,900	90

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL. 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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