Ironworker salary in Cedar Rapids, IA
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Ironworkers in the Cedar Rapids, IA area earn a median of $75,380 a year, or $36.24 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $77,410 a year. Statewide, ironworkers earn a median of $77,400; Cedar Rapids is 3% below it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $25.83/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 80
- After cost of living
- $84,730
- Median hourly pay
- $36.24/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +20%
- vs Iowa median
- −3%
- Mean (average) pay
- $69,640 a year · $33.48 an hour
Pay by percentile
What ironworkers in Cedar Rapids, IA 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 | $25.83 | $53,730 |
| 25th percentile | $31.60 | $65,730 |
| Median (50th) | $36.24 | $75,380 |
| 75th percentile | $37.21 | $77,400 |
| 90th percentile | $37.22 | $77,410 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Cedar Rapids, IA compares
- Cedar Rapids ranks 4th of 5 Iowa metro areas for ironworker pay.
- Ironworkers are more concentrated in the Cedar Rapids area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.
Other Iowa metro areas
Other trades in Cedar Rapids, IA
Questions
- Do ironworkers make more in Cedar Rapids or Davenport?
- Davenport pays more: the median is $75,380 in Cedar Rapids and $79,090 in Davenport, 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 47-2221 (Structural Iron and Steel Workers), area code 16300 (Cedar Rapids, IA). 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 (89.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures