Millwright salary in Dothan, AL
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Millwrights in the Dothan, AL area earn a median of $50,630 a year, or $24.34 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $61,060 a year. Across all of Alabama, the median is $61,410, so Dothan pays 18% less than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $18.81/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 60
- After cost of living
- $60,390
- Median hourly pay
- $24.34/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −23%
- vs Alabama median
- −18%
- Mean (average) pay
- $51,280 a year · $24.65 an hour
Pay by percentile
What millwrights in Dothan, 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 | $18.81 | $39,120 |
| 25th percentile | $19.63 | $40,820 |
| Median (50th) | $24.34 | $50,630 |
| 75th percentile | $28.21 | $58,670 |
| 90th percentile | $29.36 | $61,060 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Dothan, AL compares
- Dothan has the lowest millwright median of the 7 Alabama metro areas with published pay.
- Millwrights are more concentrated in the Dothan area than nationally: 0.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 3.5 times the U.S. share.
Other Alabama metro areas
Other trades in Dothan, AL
Questions
- Do millwrights make more in Dothan or Decatur?
- Decatur pays more: the median is $50,630 in Dothan and $61,670 in Decatur, a 18% 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 20020 (Dothan, 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 (83.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures