Do ironworkers make more in Tyler or Austin?

Austin pays more: the median is $45,030 in Tyler and $59,980 in Austin, a 25% difference.

Ironworker salary in Tyler, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Ironworkers in the Tyler, TX area earn a median of $45,030 a year, or $21.65 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $52,750. Across all of Texas, the median is $52,240, so Tyler pays 14% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$45,030

Bottom 10% under$37,300Top 10% over$52,750

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.94/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $48,860
Median hourly pay: $21.65/hr
vs U.S. median: −28%
vs Texas median: −14%
Mean (average) pay: $45,090 a year · $21.68 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 46340, Tyler, 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 Tyler, 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	$17.94	$37,300
25th percentile	$18.98	$39,480
Median (50th)	$21.65	$45,030
75th percentile	$22.90	$47,640
90th percentile	$25.36	$52,750

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

How Tyler, TX compares

Tyler ranks 11th of 13 Texas metro areas for ironworker pay.
Ironworkers are more concentrated in the Tyler area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do ironworkers make more in Tyler or Austin?: Austin pays more: the median is $45,030 in Tyler and $59,980 in Austin, a 25% 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 46340 (Tyler, 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 (92.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures