Ironworker salary in Birmingham, AL
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Ironworkers in the Birmingham, AL area earn a median of $59,180 a year, or $28.45 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $63,700 a year. That's 4% more than the Alabama median of $56,640.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $21.39/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 550
- After cost of living
- $64,580
- Median hourly pay
- $28.45/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −6%
- vs Alabama median
- +4%
- Mean (average) pay
- $55,630 a year · $26.75 an hour
Pay by percentile
What ironworkers in Birmingham, AL 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 | $21.39 | $44,500 |
| 25th percentile | $24.03 | $49,980 |
| Median (50th) | $28.45 | $59,180 |
| 75th percentile | $29.55 | $61,460 |
| 90th percentile | $30.62 | $63,700 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Birmingham, AL compares
- Birmingham ranks 3rd of 4 Alabama metro areas for ironworker pay.
- Ironworkers are more concentrated in the Birmingham area than nationally: 1.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.4 times the U.S. share.
Other Alabama metro areas
Other trades in Birmingham, AL
Questions
- Do ironworkers make more in Birmingham or Florence?
- Florence pays more: the median is $59,180 in Birmingham and $69,530 in Florence, a 15% difference.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2221 (Structural Iron and Steel Workers), area code 13820 (Birmingham, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed ironworkers 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 (91.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures