About TradeSalary
TradeSalary answers a simple question for people weighing a trade, and for apprentices and journeymen checking their pay: what does this work actually pay where I live?
The answer is already public. The Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys employers across the country and publishes pay for every occupation, state, and metro area. But it's spread across spreadsheets and hard to read. We take those figures, keep them exactly as published, and put them on one page per trade and place, with the range from the lowest-paid 10% to the top 10%, and what the pay is worth after the local cost of living.
What we promise
- Every number comes from a named government source with its date. See our methodology.
- If a figure isn't published, we say so. We never fill gaps with guesses.
- We only build a page when there's real data for it.
- Anything that earns us money is disclosed, and it never changes the data.
What's coming
We're adding each state's licensing requirements, checked by hand against the licensing board, plus apprenticeship and training program listings and practice tests.
Who we are
TradeSalary is a service of Northwoods Ventures LLC. Questions, corrections, or ideas: support@tradesalary.com.
Other sites from Northwoods Ventures
Northwoods Ventures LLC also builds and runs these sites:
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- HTSLookup — every US tariff code in plain English, with the duty Customs collects on it today by country of origin.
- LakeLevelToday — today's water level for more than a thousand US lakes and reservoirs, straight from the agencies that measure them.
- PropertyRoofs — how commercial roof systems compare for building owners, from how each goes on and handles hail to what public owners have paid.
- FactoryDate — how old a water heater, furnace, AC or heat pump is, decoded from the serial number on its data plate.
- AgeByName — how old the typical person with any first name is, from Social Security baby-name records.
- HowMuchPerPerson — how much food, drink and ice to buy for a party, in the units the store sells it.
- Soft Open HQ — leads on new Texas bars, restaurants and liquor stores from their liquor license filings, for one company per category in each city, starting with Houston.
See the full Northwoods Ventures portfolio.