Do millwrights make more in Canton or Toledo?

Toledo pays more: the median is $63,920 in Canton and $83,280 in Toledo, a 23% difference.

Millwright salary in Canton, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Canton–Massillon, OH area earn a median of $63,920 a year, or $30.73 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $85,000. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $73,220; Canton is 13% below it.

Median yearly pay$63,920

Bottom 10% under$56,440Top 10% over$85,000

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $27.14/hr
Jobs in this area: 60
After cost of living: $71,490
Median hourly pay: $30.73/hr
vs U.S. median: −3%
vs Ohio median: −13%
Mean (average) pay: $67,130 a year · $32.27 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 15940, Canton-Massillon, OH). 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 Canton, OH 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	$27.14	$56,440
25th percentile	$27.63	$57,460
Median (50th)	$30.73	$63,920
75th percentile	$38.13	$79,310
90th percentile	$40.87	$85,000

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

How Canton, OH compares

Canton ranks 9th of 11 Ohio metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are more concentrated in the Canton area than nationally: 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Canton or Toledo?: Toledo pays more: the median is $63,920 in Canton and $83,280 in Toledo, a 23% 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 15940 (Canton-Massillon, OH). 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 (89.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures