High paying construction jobs in Great Falls, MT with no experience

The best paid construction occupations in Great Falls, MT 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 Great Falls, MT run 3.2% below the national average (2024), so a Great Falls, MT 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, Great Falls, MT · Employed

1Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$77,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,010 – $98,150240
2Electricians$76,960
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,800 – $94,670170
3Highway Maintenance Workers$62,700
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,270 – $62,70040
4Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$62,090
High school diploma or equivalent
$49,830 – $87,090170
5Carpenters$58,790
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,320 – $74,590370
6Painters, Construction and Maintenance$58,260
No formal educational credential
$37,710 – $65,73070
7Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$57,680
No formal educational credential
$45,960 – $76,29050
8Sheet Metal Workers$57,480
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,630 – $81,79070
9Roofers$49,920
No formal educational credential
$37,440 – $70,72040
10Construction Laborers$49,300
No formal educational credential
$36,330 – $71,190350
11Glaziers$39,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,490 – $57,10050

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

#	Occupation	MedianGreat Falls, MT	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$77,100	$48,010 – $98,150	240
2	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,960	$48,800 – $94,670	170
3	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,700	$46,270 – $62,700	40
4	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,090	$49,830 – $87,090	170
5	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,790	$44,320 – $74,590	370
6	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$58,260	$37,710 – $65,730	70
7	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$57,680	$45,960 – $76,290	50
8	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,480	$43,630 – $81,790	70
9	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$49,920	$37,440 – $70,720	40
10	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$49,300	$36,330 – $71,190	350
11	GlaziersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$39,470	$33,490 – $57,100	50

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Great Falls, MT. 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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