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Ironworker salary in Toledo, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Ironworkers in the Toledo, OH area earn a median of $74,710 a year, or $35.92 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $78,160. Across all of Ohio, the median is $74,710, so Toledo pays about the same as the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$74,710
Bottom 10% under$56,490Top 10% over$78,160
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$27.16/hr
Jobs in this area
220
After cost of living
$81,690
Median hourly pay
$35.92/hr
vs U.S. median
+19%
vs Ohio median
0%
Mean (average) pay
$72,580 a year · $34.89 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45780, Toledo, OH). 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 Toledo, OH 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$27.16$56,490
25th percentile$28.96$60,230
Median (50th)$35.92$74,710
75th percentile$36.91$76,770
90th percentile$37.58$78,160

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

How Toledo, OH compares

  • Toledo ranks 5th of 6 Ohio metro areas for ironworker pay.
  • Ironworkers are more concentrated in the Toledo area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.7 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

Other trades in Toledo, OH

Questions

Do ironworkers make more in Toledo or Columbus?
Columbus pays more: the median is $74,710 in Toledo and $76,920 in Columbus, a 3% 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 45780 (Toledo, OH). 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 (91.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures