Do millwrights make more in Cleveland or Toledo?

Toledo pays more: the median is $74,800 in Cleveland and $83,280 in Toledo, a 10% difference.

Millwright salary in Cleveland, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Cleveland, OH area earn a median of $74,800 a year, or $35.96 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $91,760. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $73,220; Cleveland is 2% above it.

Median yearly pay$74,800

Bottom 10% under$52,980Top 10% over$91,760

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $25.47/hr
Jobs in this area: 290
After cost of living: $79,640
Median hourly pay: $35.96/hr
vs U.S. median: +14%
vs Ohio median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $74,670 a year · $35.90 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 17410, Cleveland, 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 Cleveland, 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	$25.47	$52,980
25th percentile	$30.47	$63,370
Median (50th)	$35.96	$74,800
75th percentile	$43.68	$90,850
90th percentile	$44.12	$91,760

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

How Cleveland, OH compares

Cleveland ranks 5th of 11 Ohio metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights hold about the same share of jobs in the Cleveland area as nationally: 0.3 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Cleveland or Toledo?: Toledo pays more: the median is $74,800 in Cleveland and $83,280 in Toledo, a 10% 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 17410 (Cleveland, 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 (93.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures