Plumber Salary 2026: Union, Service vs New, Master, by State

TL;DR — Plumber Salary national + state, real-wage adjusted

National distribution where the spread is

Where the spread is.

FIG. 02 · National distribution · SOC 47-2152 n = $455,940 workers

P50 $62,970

$40,670P10 P25 $48,860 P75 $81,900 P90$105,150

The amber band is the 10th-to-90th percentile. The thicker inner band is the central half — half of all Plumbers in the federal sample earn between $48,860 and $81,900 in nominal W-2 wages.

State-by-state — ranked by real P50 P50 wage from BLS OEWS · real wage divides nominal by state RPP

The same job, fifty-one wages.

Sorted by real P50 descending. Real wage is the BLS nominal P50 divided by the state's BEA RPP — the dollar that buys the same basket as the national average. Each row links to the full state page.

Rank	ST	State	Real P50	Nom. P50	RPP	Emp
01	IL	Illinois	$97,416▲1%	$96,200	98.8	19K
02	OR	Oregon	$88,835▼5%	$93,110	104.8	6K
03	MT	Montana	$85,624▲10%	$77,930	91	2K
04	MN	Minnesota	$84,719▲2%	$83,280	98.3	9K
05	WI	Wisconsin	$84,220▲7%	$78,510	93.2	9K
06	MI	Michigan	$81,690▲6%	$77,030	94.3	13K
07	AK	Alaska	$80,438▼3%	$83,090	103.3	1K
08	MA	Massachusetts	$77,325▼7%	$83,260	107.7	16K
· · · · · 38 states omitted · · · · ·
47	SD	South Dakota	$57,618▲13%	$50,790	88.1	2K
48	AR	Arkansas	$57,251▲15%	$49,700	86.8	3K
49	WV	West Virginia	$55,370▲12%	$49,630	89.6	2K
50	NC	North Carolina	$54,015▲6%	$50,990	94.4	14K
51	FL	Florida	$48,767▼4%	$50,540	103.6	27K
RPP source: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2023 release. P10–P90 from BLS OEWS May 2024.				Real P50 = Nominal P50 × (100 / RPP)

All 51 state pages P10–P90 + RPP per state

FIG. · PLUMBER · REAL P50 BY STATE n = 51 jurisdictions · darker = higher

AK 80K ME 63K VT 62K NH 59K WA 73K ID 62K MT 86K ND 71K MN 85K WI 84K MI 82K NY 73K MA 77K RI 63K OR 89K NV 61K WY 67K SD 58K IA 69K IL 97K IN 70K OH 68K PA 68K NJ 71K CT 70K CA 61K UT 64K CO 62K NE 70K MO 68K KY 69K WV 55K VA 59K MD 60K DE 65K DC 74K AZ 61K NM 66K KS 70K AR 57K TN 63K NC 54K SC 59K HI 72K TX 60K OK 62K LA 73K MS 67K AL 60K GA 58K FL 49K

Real P50 (BLS ÷ RPP)

Top 20% $88K+

60–80% $78K

40–60% $68K

20–40% $58K

Bottom 20% $49K

Each tile shows the BLS OEWS P50 wage divided by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity (real take-home, normalized to US-100). Darker amber = higher real wage. Click any tile for the full state page with P10–P90 percentiles, RPP, and rank. Source: BLS OEWS May 2024 + BEA RPP 2023.

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Plumber Salary 2026 — Union vs Non-Union, Service vs New Construction, Master Premium, by State

Where the spread is.

The same job, fifty-one wages.