High paying construction jobs in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA with no experience

The best paid construction occupations in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. 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 Brunswick-St. Simons, GA run 12.3% below the national average (2024), so a Brunswick-St. Simons, GA salary is worth about 1.14× 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, Brunswick-St. Simons, GA · Employed

1Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$59,630
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,560 – $101,53070
2Electricians$58,880
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,680 – $97,010140
3Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$46,600
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,520 – $63,110190
4Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$46,140
No formal educational credential
$36,920 – $61,88040
5Painters, Construction and Maintenance$45,760
No formal educational credential
$36,300 – $51,66080
6Carpenters$45,110
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,410 – $62,48080
7Helpers--Electricians$37,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,000 – $47,97030
8Construction Laborers$36,020
No formal educational credential
$24,960 – $51,850330
9Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$32,000
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,840 – $55,47030

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

#	Occupation	MedianBrunswick-St. Simons, GA	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,630	$45,560 – $101,530	70
2	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,880	$37,680 – $97,010	140
3	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,600	$35,520 – $63,110	190
4	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$46,140	$36,920 – $61,880	40
5	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$45,760	$36,300 – $51,660	80
6	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,110	$33,410 – $62,480	80
7	Helpers--ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,890	$30,000 – $47,970	30
8	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$36,020	$24,960 – $51,850	330
9	Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$32,000	$31,840 – $55,470	30

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Brunswick-St. Simons, GA. 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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