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Ironworker salary in Beaumont, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Ironworkers in the Beaumont–Port Arthur, TX area earn a median of $57,220 a year, or $27.51 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $71,800. Statewide, ironworkers earn a median of $52,240; Beaumont is 10% above it.

Median yearly pay$57,220
Bottom 10% under$42,670Top 10% over$71,800
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$20.51/hr
Jobs in this area
310
After cost of living
$63,550
Median hourly pay
$27.51/hr
vs U.S. median
−9%
vs Texas median
+10%
Mean (average) pay
$54,590 a year · $26.25 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13140, Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX). 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 Beaumont, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$20.51$42,670
25th percentile$21.71$45,160
Median (50th)$27.51$57,220
75th percentile$29.51$61,380
90th percentile$34.52$71,800

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

How Beaumont, TX compares

  • Beaumont ranks 6th of 13 Texas metro areas for ironworker pay.
  • Ironworkers are more concentrated in the Beaumont area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 4.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do ironworkers make more in Beaumont or Austin?
Austin pays more: the median is $57,220 in Beaumont and $59,980 in Austin, 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 13140 (Beaumont-Port Arthur, 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 (90.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures