TradeSalary

Millwright salary in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN area earn a median of $75,650 a year, or $36.37 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $92,420. That's 3% more than the Ohio median of $73,220.

Median yearly pay$75,650
Bottom 10% under$49,840Top 10% over$92,420
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$23.96/hr
Jobs in this area
250
After cost of living
$79,320
Median hourly pay
$36.37/hr
vs U.S. median
+15%
vs Ohio median
+3%
Mean (average) pay
$73,740 a year · $35.45 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 17140, Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN). 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 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 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$23.96$49,840
25th percentile$29.93$62,240
Median (50th)$36.37$75,650
75th percentile$43.82$91,140
90th percentile$44.43$92,420

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

How Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN compares

  • Cincinnati ranks 4th of 11 Ohio metro areas for millwright pay.
  • Millwrights are less concentrated in the Cincinnati area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.87 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

Other trades in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

Questions

Do millwrights make more in Cincinnati or Toledo?
Toledo pays more: the median is $75,650 in Cincinnati and $83,280 in Toledo, 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 17140 (Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN). 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 (95.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures