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Millwright salary in Mobile, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Mobile, AL area earn a median of $59,130 a year, or $28.43 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $73,320. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $61,410; Mobile is 4% below it.

Median yearly pay$59,130
Bottom 10% under$47,640Top 10% over$73,320
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$22.91/hr
Jobs in this area
160
After cost of living
$67,120
Median hourly pay
$28.43/hr
vs U.S. median
−10%
vs Alabama median
−4%
Mean (average) pay
$61,310 a year · $29.48 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33660, Mobile, 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 Mobile, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$22.91$47,640
25th percentile$23.97$49,860
Median (50th)$28.43$59,130
75th percentile$34.10$70,930
90th percentile$35.25$73,320

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

How Mobile, AL compares

  • Mobile ranks 6th of 7 Alabama metro areas for millwright pay.
  • Millwrights are more concentrated in the Mobile area than nationally: 0.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 3.6 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

Other trades in Mobile, AL

Questions

Do millwrights make more in Mobile or Decatur?
Decatur pays more: the median is $59,130 in Mobile and $61,670 in Decatur, a 4% 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 33660 (Mobile, 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 (88.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures