Do millwrights make more in Dayton or Toledo?

Toledo pays more: the median is $70,540 in Dayton and $83,280 in Toledo, a 15% difference.

Millwright salary in Dayton, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Dayton–Kettering–Beavercreek, OH area earn a median of $70,540 a year, or $33.91 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $88,650 a year. That's 4% less than the Ohio median of $73,220.

Median yearly pay$70,540

Bottom 10% under$48,160Top 10% over$88,650

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $23.15/hr
Jobs in this area: 50
After cost of living: $76,100
Median hourly pay: $33.91/hr
vs U.S. median: +7%
vs Ohio median: −4%
Mean (average) pay: $67,890 a year · $32.64 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 19430, Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, 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 Dayton, 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	$23.15	$48,160
25th percentile	$28.20	$58,650
Median (50th)	$33.91	$70,540
75th percentile	$36.43	$75,770
90th percentile	$42.62	$88,650

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

How Dayton, OH compares

Dayton ranks 6th of 11 Ohio metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are less concentrated in the Dayton area than nationally: 0.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.49 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Dayton or Toledo?: Toledo pays more: the median is $70,540 in Dayton and $83,280 in Toledo, a 15% 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 19430 (Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, 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 (92.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures