Ironworker salary in Amarillo, TX
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Ironworkers in the Amarillo, TX area earn a median of $59,610 a year, or $28.66 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $74,580 a year. Statewide, ironworkers earn a median of $52,240; Amarillo is 14% above it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $18.52/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 60
- After cost of living
- $64,920
- Median hourly pay
- $28.66/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −5%
- vs Texas median
- +14%
- Mean (average) pay
- $57,040 a year · $27.43 an hour
Pay by percentile
What ironworkers in Amarillo, TX 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 | $18.52 | $38,530 |
| 25th percentile | $22.25 | $46,280 |
| Median (50th) | $28.66 | $59,610 |
| 75th percentile | $30.45 | $63,330 |
| 90th percentile | $35.86 | $74,580 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Amarillo, TX compares
- Amarillo ranks 2nd of 13 Texas metro areas for ironworker pay.
- Ironworkers hold about the same share of jobs in the Amarillo area as nationally: 0.5 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Texas metro areas
Other trades in Amarillo, TX
Questions
- Do ironworkers make more in Amarillo or Austin?
- Austin pays more: the median is $59,610 in Amarillo and $59,980 in Austin, a 1% 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 11100 (Amarillo, TX). 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 (91.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures