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Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Pipelayerss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for pipelayers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 131 metro areas

Pipelayers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$93,550	90	0.1
2	Green Bay, WI	$91,520	40	0.2
3	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	$90,880	40	0.3
4	Madison, WI	$86,870	50	0.1
5	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$84,830	610	0.3
6	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$82,020	320	0.2
7	Youngstown-Warren, OH	$81,250	30	0.2
8	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$80,370	390	0.0
9	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$80,260	500	0.1
10	Cleveland, OH	$79,840	100	0.1
11	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$77,220	90	0.7
12	Toledo, OH	$76,870	30	0.1
13	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$76,450	40	0.1
14	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$76,390	80	0.3
15	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$76,190	250	0.1
16	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$74,180	490	0.4
17	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$73,960	170	0.2
18	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$73,920	320	0.3
19	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$72,070	Not published	Not published
20	Columbus, OH	$71,560	430	0.4
21	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$70,910	170	0.2
22	Syracuse, NY	$70,370	60	0.2
23	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$70,230	40	0.1
24	Reno, NV	$65,290	80	0.3
25	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$64,770	90	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Pipelayers overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.