Do millwrights make more in Topeka or Kansas City?

Pay is about the same: the median is $91,170 in Topeka and $91,380 in Kansas City.

Millwright salary in Topeka, KS

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Topeka, KS area earn a median of $91,170 a year, or $43.83 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $92,900 a year. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $79,690; Topeka is 14% above it.

Median yearly pay$91,170

Bottom 10% under$54,120Top 10% over$92,900

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $26.02/hr
Jobs in this area: 70
After cost of living: $102,650
Median hourly pay: $43.83/hr
vs U.S. median: +39%
vs Kansas median: +14%
Mean (average) pay: $77,470 a year · $37.24 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45820, Topeka, KS). 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 Topeka, KS 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	$26.02	$54,120
25th percentile	$30.10	$62,600
Median (50th)	$43.83	$91,170
75th percentile	$44.18	$91,890
90th percentile	$44.66	$92,900

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

How Topeka, KS compares

Topeka ranks 2nd of 3 Kansas metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are more concentrated in the Topeka area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Kansas metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Topeka or Kansas City?: Pay is about the same: the median is $91,170 in Topeka and $91,380 in Kansas City.

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 45820 (Topeka, KS). 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 (88.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures