High paying construction jobs in Niles, MI with no experience

The best paid construction occupations in Niles, MI 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 Niles, MI run 7.6% below the national average (2024), so a Niles, MI salary is worth about 1.08× 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, Niles, MI · Employed

1Electricians$64,060
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,220 – $107,660240
2Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$59,810
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,590 – $92,88090
3Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$59,670
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,460 – $103,840130
4Highway Maintenance Workers$57,120
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,460 – $61,280130
5Sheet Metal Workers$55,920
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,890 – $91,89040
6Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$55,590
No formal educational credential
$30,690 – $72,66070
7Carpenters$54,620
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,540 – $75,140180
8Painters, Construction and Maintenance$47,400
No formal educational credential
$32,860 – $74,90050
9Construction Laborers$46,530
No formal educational credential
$34,880 – $62,290290

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

#	Occupation	MedianNiles, MI	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,060	$40,220 – $107,660	240
2	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,810	$39,590 – $92,880	90
3	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,670	$44,460 – $103,840	130
4	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$57,120	$37,460 – $61,280	130
5	Sheet Metal WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,920	$35,890 – $91,890	40
6	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$55,590	$30,690 – $72,660	70
7	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$54,620	$42,540 – $75,140	180
8	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$47,400	$32,860 – $74,900	50
9	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$46,530	$34,880 – $62,290	290

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