High paying construction jobs in Rocky Mount, NC with no experience

The best paid construction occupations in Rocky Mount, NC 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 Rocky Mount, NC run 12.0% below the national average (2024), so a Rocky Mount, NC 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, Rocky Mount, NC · Employed

1Electricians$58,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,480 – $79,150340
2Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$56,220
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,300 – $74,140140
3Highway Maintenance Workers$48,870
High school diploma or equivalent
$33,680 – $57,17060
4Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$48,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,420 – $58,250170
5Carpenters$47,490
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,510 – $54,780140
6Pipelayers$43,230
No formal educational credential
$37,290 – $45,62050
7Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$40,570
High school diploma or equivalent
$24,820 – $48,25050
8Painters, Construction and Maintenance$40,390
No formal educational credential
$27,040 – $56,21040
9Roofers$40,100
No formal educational credential
$30,080 – $52,00040
10Construction Laborers$38,100
No formal educational credential
$30,330 – $56,700340
11Helpers--Electricians$37,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,900 – $47,080120

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

#	Occupation	MedianRocky Mount, NC	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,710	$39,480 – $79,150	340
2	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$56,220	$37,300 – $74,140	140
3	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,870	$33,680 – $57,170	60
4	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,640	$37,420 – $58,250	170
5	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,490	$34,510 – $54,780	140
6	PipelayersNo formal educational credential	$43,230	$37,290 – $45,620	50
7	Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,570	$24,820 – $48,250	50
8	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$40,390	$27,040 – $56,210	40
9	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$40,100	$30,080 – $52,000	40
10	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$38,100	$30,330 – $56,700	340
11	Helpers--ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,830	$32,900 – $47,080	120

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Rocky Mount, NC. 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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