Do millwrights make more in Winston or Greensboro?

Pay is about the same: the median is $65,790 in Winston and $65,830 in Greensboro.

Millwright salary in Winston, NC

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Winston–Salem, NC area earn a median of $65,790 a year, or $31.63 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $76,690. Across all of North Carolina, the median is $62,990, so Winston pays 4% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$65,790

Bottom 10% under$47,590Top 10% over$76,690

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.88/hr
Jobs in this area: 60
After cost of living: $71,480
Median hourly pay: $31.63/hr
vs U.S. median: 0%
vs North Carolina median: +4%
Mean (average) pay: $65,550 a year · $31.52 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 49180, Winston-Salem, NC). 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 Winston, NC 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	$22.88	$47,590
25th percentile	$28.50	$59,290
Median (50th)	$31.63	$65,790
75th percentile	$36.87	$76,690
90th percentile	$36.87	$76,690

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

How Winston, NC compares

Winston ranks 2nd of 6 North Carolina metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are less concentrated in the Winston area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.80 times the U.S. share.

Other North Carolina metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Winston or Greensboro?: Pay is about the same: the median is $65,790 in Winston and $65,830 in Greensboro.

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 49180 (Winston-Salem, NC). 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 (92.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures