Plumbers' salaries retain a Broad reach now plumbers profession in a change of settings. The average is skewed high because many listings were in the New York city metropolitan area and paid more than $70,000 a year.
Journeymen Salaries
Journeymen plumbers can expect to earn $1 to $2 more an hour at the early levels of experience, but the gap gets progressively wider, to about $5 more an hour with 10 years experience.
Average Salary
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics includes pipefitters and steamfitters with plumbers in its salary figures. Average salary for this group in 2008 was $23.65 per hour, or $49,200 annually.
Plumbers, Pipefitters and Steamfitters
About 80 percent of the labor bureau's plumber category was earning between $13.20 and $38 in 2008. Narrowing it further, the middle 50 percent had salaries between $16.60 and $30 per hour.
Plumber Salary Range
The Salary Wizard web site showed the middle 50 percent of plumbers earning between $33,276 and $45,675 in 2009, translating to between $16 and $22 per hour.
Job Listing Data
Data from actual job listings, as gathered by the SalaryList web site, shows average plumber salary in July 2009 at about $45,000. If the plumber belongs to a a union, are journeymen or are skillful plumbers too makes a aberration.
