TradeSalary

Boilermaker salary in Beaumont, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Boilermakers in the Beaumont–Port Arthur, TX area earn a median of $73,060 a year, or $35.13 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $103,600. Statewide, boilermakers earn a median of $75,750; Beaumont is 4% below it.

Median yearly pay$73,060
Bottom 10% under$54,080Top 10% over$103,600
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$26.00/hr
Jobs in this area
230
After cost of living
$81,140
Median hourly pay
$35.13/hr
vs U.S. median
−4%
vs Texas median
−4%
Mean (average) pay
$74,850 a year · $35.99 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13140, Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX). Excludes self-employed boilermakers. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What boilermakers in Beaumont, TX 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$26.00$54,080
25th percentile$31.19$64,870
Median (50th)$35.13$73,060
75th percentile$38.64$80,370
90th percentile$49.81$103,600

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Beaumont, TX compares

  • Beaumont ranks 2nd of 3 Texas metro areas for boilermaker pay.
  • Boilermakers are more concentrated in the Beaumont area than nationally: 1.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 21.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do boilermakers make more in Beaumont or Houston?
Houston pays more: the median is $73,060 in Beaumont and $77,090 in Houston, a 5% 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 13140 (Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX). 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 (90.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures