Boilermaker salary in Baton Rouge, LA
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Boilermakers in the Baton Rouge, LA area earn a median of $74,730 a year, or $35.93 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $76,760. Statewide, boilermakers earn a median of $73,980; Baton Rouge is 1% above it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $30.30/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 680
- After cost of living
- $82,320
- Median hourly pay
- $35.93/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −2%
- vs Louisiana median
- +1%
- Mean (average) pay
- $72,070 a year · $34.65 an hour
Pay by percentile
What boilermakers in Baton Rouge, LA earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.
| Percentile | Hourly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $30.30 | $63,020 |
| 25th percentile | $32.18 | $66,940 |
| Median (50th) | $35.93 | $74,730 |
| 75th percentile | $36.04 | $74,960 |
| 90th percentile | $36.90 | $76,760 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Baton Rouge, LA compares
- Baton Rouge ranks 2nd of 3 Louisiana metro areas for boilermaker pay.
- Boilermakers are more concentrated in the Baton Rouge area than nationally: 1.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 25.4 times the U.S. share.
Other Louisiana metro areas
Other trades in Baton Rouge, LA
Questions
- Do boilermakers make more in Baton Rouge or New Orleans?
- New Orleans pays more: the median is $74,730 in Baton Rouge and $77,290 in New Orleans, a 3% difference.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2011 (Boilermakers), area code 12940 (Baton Rouge, LA). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed boilermakers and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (90.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures