High paying construction jobs in Mankato, MN with no experience

The best paid construction occupations in Mankato, MN 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 Mankato, MN run 9.0% below the national average (2024), so a Mankato, MN salary is worth about 1.10× 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, Mankato, MN · Employed

1Electricians$83,120
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,140 – $100,770260
2Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$78,560
High school diploma or equivalent
$51,010 – $91,730150
3Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$74,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,870 – $114,890130
4Highway Maintenance Workers$63,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,280 – $70,68080
5Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$61,590
No formal educational credential
$47,510 – $74,77040
6Carpenters$61,150
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,900 – $78,220230
7Sheet Metal Workers$59,840
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,720 – $106,87050
8Construction Laborers$59,350
No formal educational credential
$43,930 – $78,580340
9Roofers$50,250
No formal educational credential
$48,250 – $65,79040
10Painters, Construction and Maintenance$46,470
No formal educational credential
$39,030 – $67,25050

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

#	Occupation	MedianMankato, MN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$83,120	$50,140 – $100,770	260
2	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,560	$51,010 – $91,730	150
3	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$74,450	$48,870 – $114,890	130
4	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,650	$37,280 – $70,680	80
5	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$61,590	$47,510 – $74,770	40
6	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,150	$45,900 – $78,220	230
7	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,840	$46,720 – $106,870	50
8	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$59,350	$43,930 – $78,580	340
9	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$50,250	$48,250 – $65,790	40
10	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$46,470	$39,030 – $67,250	50

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