Ironworker salary in Louisville, KY-IN
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Ironworkers in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN area earn a median of $69,280 a year, or $33.31 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $88,050. Across all of Kentucky, the median is $64,060, so Louisville pays 8% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $24.71/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 310
- After cost of living
- $74,440
- Median hourly pay
- $33.31/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +10%
- vs Kentucky median
- +8%
- Mean (average) pay
- $71,220 a year · $34.24 an hour
Pay by percentile
What ironworkers in Louisville, KY-IN 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 | $24.71 | $51,400 |
| 25th percentile | $28.98 | $60,280 |
| Median (50th) | $33.31 | $69,280 |
| 75th percentile | $37.78 | $78,590 |
| 90th percentile | $42.33 | $88,050 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Louisville, KY-IN compares
- Louisville ranks 2nd of 3 Kentucky metro areas for ironworker pay.
- Ironworkers hold about the same share of jobs in the Louisville area as nationally: 0.5 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Kentucky metro areas
Other trades in Louisville, KY-IN
Questions
- Do ironworkers make more in Louisville or Cincinnati?
- Cincinnati pays more: the median is $69,280 in Louisville and $75,700 in Cincinnati, a 8% 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 31140 (Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN). 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 (93.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures