High paying construction jobs in St. Cloud, MN with no experience

The best paid construction occupations in St. Cloud, 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 St. Cloud, MN run 12.4% below the national average (2024), so a St. Cloud, MN 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, St. Cloud, MN · Employed

1Insulation Workers, Mechanical$100,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$61,870 – $107,26080
2Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$90,230
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,770 – $116,850830
3Electricians$81,890
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,860 – $103,540730
4Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$79,530
High school diploma or equivalent
$58,980 – $98,390700
5Roofers$79,250
No formal educational credential
$46,130 – $91,620130
6Highway Maintenance Workers$63,650
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,600 – $73,100170
7Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$61,100
No formal educational credential
$48,220 – $89,880140
8Carpenters$60,600
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,570 – $89,510570
9Construction Laborers$57,820
No formal educational credential
$44,490 – $91,1101,470
10Painters, Construction and Maintenance$46,380
No formal educational credential
$34,520 – $73,380120

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

#	Occupation	MedianSt. Cloud, MN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Insulation Workers, MechanicalHigh school diploma or equivalent	$100,520	$61,870 – $107,260	80
2	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and SteamfittersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$90,230	$50,770 – $116,850	830
3	ElectriciansHigh school diploma or equivalent	$81,890	$47,860 – $103,540	730
4	Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$79,530	$58,980 – $98,390	700
5	RoofersNo formal educational credential	$79,250	$46,130 – $91,620	130
6	Highway Maintenance WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,650	$47,600 – $73,100	170
7	Cement Masons and Concrete FinishersNo formal educational credential	$61,100	$48,220 – $89,880	140
8	CarpentersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,600	$45,570 – $89,510	570
9	Construction LaborersNo formal educational credential	$57,820	$44,490 – $91,110	1,470
10	Painters, Construction and MaintenanceNo formal educational credential	$46,380	$34,520 – $73,380	120

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