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Ironworker salary in Miami, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Ironworkers in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach, FL area earn a median of $60,270 a year, or $28.98 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $77,060. Statewide, ironworkers earn a median of $55,700; Miami is 8% above it.

Median yearly pay$60,270
Bottom 10% under$40,890Top 10% over$77,060
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$19.66/hr
Jobs in this area
890
After cost of living
$52,800
Median hourly pay
$28.98/hr
vs U.S. median
−4%
vs Florida median
+8%
Mean (average) pay
$59,130 a year · $28.43 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33100, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL). Excludes self-employed ironworkers. 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 ironworkers in Miami, FL 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$19.66$40,890
25th percentile$23.96$49,830
Median (50th)$28.98$60,270
75th percentile$32.58$67,760
90th percentile$37.05$77,060

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

How Miami, FL compares

  • Miami ranks 3rd of 7 Florida metro areas for ironworker pay.
  • Ironworkers are less concentrated in the Miami area than nationally: 0.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.72 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

Other trades in Miami, FL

Questions

Do ironworkers make more in Miami or Port St. Lucie?
Port St. Lucie pays more: the median is $60,270 in Miami and $61,120 in Port St. Lucie, a 1% 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 33100 (Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL). 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 (114.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures