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Millwright salary in Wichita, KS

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Wichita, KS area earn a median of $82,890 a year, or $39.85 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $88,980. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $79,690; Wichita is 4% above it.

Median yearly pay$82,890
Bottom 10% under$44,830Top 10% over$88,980
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$21.55/hr
Jobs in this area
120
After cost of living
$93,190
Median hourly pay
$39.85/hr
vs U.S. median
+26%
vs Kansas median
+4%
Mean (average) pay
$73,800 a year · $35.48 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 48620, Wichita, 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 Wichita, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$21.55$44,830
25th percentile$28.56$59,400
Median (50th)$39.85$82,890
75th percentile$42.78$88,980
90th percentile$42.78$88,980

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

How Wichita, KS compares

  • Wichita has the lowest millwright median of the 3 Kansas metro areas with published pay.
  • Millwrights are more concentrated in the Wichita area than nationally: 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

Other Kansas metro areas

Other trades in Wichita, KS

Questions

Do millwrights make more in Wichita or Kansas City?
Kansas City pays more: the median is $82,890 in Wichita and $91,380 in Kansas City, a 9% 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 48620 (Wichita, 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 (88.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures