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Structural Iron and Steel Workers · SOC 47-2221

Structural Iron and Steel Workers Salary in the Chattanooga Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Chattanooga, TN-GA metro area

Figures describe the Chattanooga, TN-GA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Chattanooga city limits.

Median annual wage$61,880
Median hourly wage$29.75

Structural Iron and Steel Workers in the Chattanooga, TN-GA metro area earned a median of $61,880 per year ($29.75 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $43,870 at the 10th percentile to $71,920 at the 90th. BLS estimates 150 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Structural Iron and Steel Workers in the Chattanooga metro area earn more than $61,880 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $49,120 and $66,240.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$43,870$49,120$61,880$66,240$71,920
Hourly$21.09$23.61$29.75$31.85$34.58

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Chattanooga metro areathis metro area
    $61,880
  • Tennesseestate (TN)
    $56,750
  • United Statesnational
    $62,780

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +9% vs Tennessee overall and −1% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$31,480$61,267$91,053$120,840San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $31,480Ocala, FL — $33,770McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $42,710College Station-Bryan, TX — $44,760Tyler, TX — $45,030Fort Smith, AR-OK — $45,220Waco, TX — $45,590Abilene, TX — $45,680Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $46,660Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $46,800Cheyenne, WY — $47,150Oklahoma City, OK — $47,330Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $47,390New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $47,530Winston-Salem, NC — $47,730Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $48,090Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $48,290Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ — $48,350Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $48,400Logan, UT-ID — $48,510Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $48,720Jacksonville, FL — $48,870St. George, UT — $48,970Rapid City, SD — $49,100Greensboro-High Point, NC — $49,490Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ — $49,490San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $50,120Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $50,390Columbia, SC — $50,510Terre Haute, IN — $52,140Tulsa, OK — $53,190Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $53,450Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $53,600Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $53,600Tucson, AZ — $54,770Colorado Springs, CO — $55,690Decatur, AL — $56,220Saginaw, MI — $56,300Ogden, UT — $56,420Lynchburg, VA — $56,440Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $56,900Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $57,220Corpus Christi, TX — $57,440Harrisonburg, VA — $57,720Sherman-Denison, TX — $57,720Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $57,780Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $57,810Lincoln, NE — $57,900Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $57,960Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $58,030Wichita, KS — $58,100Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $58,630Greeley, CO — $59,100Birmingham, AL — $59,180Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $59,200Tuscaloosa, AL — $59,230Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $59,540Amarillo, TX — $59,610Reno, NV — $59,880Manchester-Nashua, NH — $59,920Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $59,980Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $60,080San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $60,080Richmond, VA — $60,260Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $60,270Winchester, VA-WV — $60,420Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $60,580Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $60,740Port St. Lucie, FL — $61,120Knoxville, TN — $61,250Chattanooga, TN-GA — $61,880Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $61,890Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $62,390New Haven, CT — $62,400Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $62,510Joplin, MO-KS — $62,600Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $62,670Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $62,870Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $63,150Portland-South Portland, ME — $63,730Lexington-Fayette, KY — $64,000Decatur, IL — $64,830Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $64,850Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $65,250Fort Wayne, IN — $67,530Reading, PA — $67,550Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $68,320Billings, MT — $69,030Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $69,280Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL — $69,530Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $70,140Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $70,400Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $71,200Syracuse, NY — $71,810Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $72,790Baton Rouge, LA — $73,470South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $73,640Springfield, MO — $74,330Omaha, NE-IA — $74,430Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $74,650Toledo, OH — $74,710Stockton-Lodi, CA — $74,890Salem, OR — $74,920Lancaster, PA — $74,950Cedar Rapids, IA — $75,380Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $75,380Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $75,700Modesto, CA — $75,820Cleveland, OH — $76,060Evansville, IN — $76,090Rochester, NY — $76,220Akron, OH — $76,330San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $76,400Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $76,420Columbus, OH — $76,920Anchorage, AK — $76,970Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $77,110Kansas City, MO-KS — $77,570Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $77,760Boise City, ID — $77,940Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $78,040Iowa City, IA — $78,800Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $79,090Columbia, MO — $79,100Peoria, IL — $80,060Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $80,080Fresno, CA — $80,110Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $80,540St. Louis, MO-IL — $81,640Springfield, IL — $81,750Champaign-Urbana, IL — $82,480Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $82,660Pittsburgh, PA — $82,860Fargo, ND-MN — $83,200Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $83,630Bellingham, WA — $86,120San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $87,340Chico, CA — $88,070Madison, WI — $92,460Eugene-Springfield, OR — $92,580Appleton, WI — $93,960Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $94,120Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $95,730Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $97,150Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $97,810Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $98,120Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $98,320Urban Honolulu, HI — $99,860La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $100,160Rockford, IL — $100,290New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $102,060Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $102,350Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $103,330Vineland, NJ — $105,370Vallejo, CA — $106,900San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $109,440Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $111,440Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $111,500Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $114,570Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $116,360Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $120,840

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Chattanooga metro area has the 91st-highest published median for this occupation among the 161 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Tennessee

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for structural iron and steel workers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Chattanooga metro areathis page
    $61,880
  • Nashville-Davidson metro area
    $61,890
  • Knoxville metro area
    $61,250
  • Memphis metro area
    $50,390

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Construction Laborers$43,260Electricians$72,330First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$75,090Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$58,720Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$50,320Carpenters$50,760

Highest-paying metro areas for structural iron and steel workerss · Highest-paying occupations in Chattanooga Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.