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Ironworker salary in Ocala, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Ironworkers in the Ocala, FL area earn a median of $33,770 a year, or $16.23 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $60,200. Across all of Florida, the median is $55,700, so Ocala pays 39% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$33,770
Bottom 10% under$33,770Top 10% over$60,200
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$16.23/hr
Jobs in this area
90
After cost of living
$35,460
Median hourly pay
$16.23/hr
vs U.S. median
−46%
vs Florida median
−39%
Mean (average) pay
$43,830 a year · $21.07 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36100, Ocala, 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 Ocala, 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$16.23$33,770
25th percentile$16.23$33,770
Median (50th)$16.23$33,770
75th percentile$28.63$59,550
90th percentile$28.94$60,200

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

How Ocala, FL compares

  • Ocala has the lowest ironworker median of the 7 Florida metro areas with published pay.
  • Ironworkers are more concentrated in the Ocala area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.7 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

Other trades in Ocala, FL

Questions

Do ironworkers make more in Ocala or Port St. Lucie?
Port St. Lucie pays more: the median is $33,770 in Ocala and $61,120 in Port St. Lucie, a 45% 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 36100 (Ocala, 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 (95.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures