Do millwrights make more in Birmingham or Decatur?

Decatur pays more: the median is $60,830 in Birmingham and $61,670 in Decatur, a 1% difference.

Millwright salary in Birmingham, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Birmingham, AL area earn a median of $60,830 a year, or $29.24 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $75,640. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $61,410; Birmingham is 1% below it.

Median yearly pay$60,830

Bottom 10% under$42,660Top 10% over$75,640

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.51/hr
Jobs in this area: 310
After cost of living: $66,380
Median hourly pay: $29.24/hr
vs U.S. median: −7%
vs Alabama median: −1%
Mean (average) pay: $61,920 a year · $29.77 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13820, Birmingham, AL). Excludes self-employed millwrights. 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 millwrights in Birmingham, AL 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	$20.51	$42,660
25th percentile	$25.02	$52,040
Median (50th)	$29.24	$60,830
75th percentile	$33.96	$70,630
90th percentile	$36.37	$75,640

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

How Birmingham, AL compares

Birmingham ranks 4th of 7 Alabama metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are more concentrated in the Birmingham area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

Other trades in Birmingham, AL

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Birmingham or Decatur?: Decatur pays more: the median is $60,830 in Birmingham and $61,670 in Decatur, 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 49-9044 (Millwrights), area code 13820 (Birmingham, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed millwrights 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 (91.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures