Millwrights salary

SOC 49-9044 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$65,700

per year, nationally

Middle half

$56,390–$81,500

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

40,330

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

0.0%

3,600 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$46,290$93,600

10th: $46,290
25th: $56,390
Median: $65,700
75th: $81,500
90th: $93,600

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Apprenticeship

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where millwrights earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	New Jersey	$107,540	108.8	340	0.30×
2	New Mexico	$90,230	92.2	60	0.27×
3	Michigan	$89,190	96.2	2,900	2.54×
4	Wisconsin	$82,630	94.1	1,220	1.60×
5	Colorado	$81,440	103.1	200	0.26×
6	Kansas	$79,690	90.1	840	2.24×
7	New York	$79,560	107.9	1,000	0.40×
8	Minnesota	$78,570	98.6	480	0.63×
9	California	$77,950	110.7	2,230	0.47×
10	Indiana	$77,140	93.3	1,760	2.12×
11	Alaska	$76,940	102.4	300	3.60×
12	Connecticut	$76,810	103.6	110	0.24×
13	Washington	$76,490	107.0	1,020	1.11×
14	New Hampshire	$76,190	104.2	80	0.46×
15	Ohio	$73,220	92.8	1,930	1.34×
16	Oregon	$70,700	103.4	460	0.89×
17	Kentucky	$70,610	90.2	1,220	2.34×
18	Maine	$68,220	97.0	350	2.08×
19	West Virginia	$67,270	89.5	330	1.80×
20	Illinois	$66,640	100.0	2,160	1.37×
21	Missouri	$66,480	90.8	830	1.09×
22	Louisiana	$66,080	88.2	1,080	2.15×
23	Massachusetts	$65,220	105.8	—	—
24	Idaho	$64,710	95.5	410	1.85×
25	Pennsylvania	$64,410	97.6	1,700	1.08×
26	Vermont	$64,180	98.0	60	0.70×
27	Utah	$63,040	98.9	220	0.48×
28	Nevada	$63,040	100.0	150	0.37×
29	North Carolina	$62,990	94.3	700	0.55×
30	Wyoming	$62,780	92.7	130	1.82×
31	Georgia	$62,760	96.3	1,780	1.41×
32	Texas	$62,630	97.1	3,540	0.97×
33	Iowa	$62,220	87.8	690	1.71×
34	Florida	$62,000	103.4	530	0.21×
35	South Dakota	$61,820	88.6	240	2.05×
36	Tennessee	$61,810	91.9	1,060	1.25×
37	South Carolina	$61,700	93.7	950	1.59×
38	Alabama	$61,410	88.8	1,400	2.56×
39	North Dakota	$60,750	89.0	170	1.50×
40	Nebraska	$60,320	90.1	590	2.22×
41	Montana	$60,050	94.6	70	0.52×
42	Maryland	$59,220	105.0	160	0.23×
43	Delaware	$58,770	99.8	90	0.69×
44	Mississippi	$58,280	87.0	1,280	4.23×
45	Arizona	$57,380	100.7	450	0.53×
46	Arkansas	$56,310	86.9	1,140	3.36×
47	Virginia	$51,430	101.1	690	0.65×
48	Oklahoma	$50,950	87.8	510	1.15×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where millwrights wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for millwrights

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$113,490	115.6	320	0.52×
2	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$107,700	100.1	80	2.39×
3	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$99,250	113.6	710	0.44×
4	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$93,070	112.6	440	0.18×
5	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$91,850	100.3	1,490	3.02×
6	Fort Wayne, IN	$91,410	92.6	110	1.89×
7	Kansas City, MO-KS	$91,380	92.5	640	2.25×
8	Topeka, KS	$91,170	88.8	70	2.28×
9	Saginaw, MI	$91,010	90.9	100	4.63×
10	Madison, WI	$90,750	97.3	40	0.42×
11	Ann Arbor, MI	$90,320	100.9	60	1.00×
12	Green Bay, WI	$84,880	93.1	200	4.32×
13	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$84,850	96.9	210	1.00×
14	Appleton, WI	$84,740	92.4	100	3.14×
15	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$84,590	95.0	130	2.28×
16	Monroe, MI	$83,970	93.5	60	5.76×
17	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$83,600	105.8	150	0.36×
18	Wausau, WI	$83,480	92.7	50	2.71×
19	Toledo, OH	$83,280	91.5	280	3.74×
20	Wichita, KS	$82,890	88.9	120	1.49×
21	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$82,840	95.8	290	2.06×
22	Lima, OH	$82,640	89.7	90	6.99×
23	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$82,470	111.1	280	0.51×
24	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$82,310	100.9	130	1.44×
25	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$80,840	99.6	100	0.86×
26	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$80,080	102.4	70	4.88×
27	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$79,840	106.7	100	0.34×
28	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$79,420	95.7	390	1.37×
29	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$79,340	104.8	280	0.55×
30	Duluth, MN-WI	$77,890	88.8	40	1.31×
31	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$77,810	102.7	40	0.24×
32	Akron, OH	$77,570	93.4	100	1.18×
33	Bowling Green, KY	$77,480	90.2	50	2.31×
34	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$77,160	103.2	30	0.50×
35	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$77,120	102.6	510	0.68×
36	Baton Rouge, LA	$76,610	90.8	290	2.72×
37	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$76,300	93.1	490	2.74×
38	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$76,200	105.4	240	0.77×
39	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$75,650	95.4	250	0.87×
40	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	$75,610	92.9	80	3.15×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where millwrights wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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