Do ironworkers make more in Manchester or Boston?

Boston pays more: the median is $59,920 in Manchester and $120,840 in Boston, a 50% difference.

Ironworker salary in Manchester, NH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Ironworkers in the Manchester–Nashua, NH area earn a median of $59,920 a year, or $28.81 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $70,290. That's about the same as the New Hampshire median of $59,920.

Median yearly pay$59,920

Bottom 10% under$48,500Top 10% over$70,290

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $23.32/hr
Jobs in this area: 120
After cost of living: $56,710
Median hourly pay: $28.81/hr
vs U.S. median: −5%
vs New Hampshire median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $59,000 a year · $28.36 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31700, Manchester-Nashua, NH). 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 Manchester, NH 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	$23.32	$48,500
25th percentile	$25.51	$53,060
Median (50th)	$28.81	$59,920
75th percentile	$30.08	$62,570
90th percentile	$33.80	$70,290

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

How Manchester, NH compares

Ironworkers are more concentrated in the Manchester area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other New Hampshire metro areas

Boston–Cambridge–Newton$120,840

Other trades in Manchester, NH

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Questions

Do ironworkers make more in Manchester or Boston?: Boston pays more: the median is $59,920 in Manchester and $120,840 in Boston, a 50% 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 31700 (Manchester-Nashua, NH). 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 (105.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures