Millwright salary in Lima, OH
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Millwrights in the Lima, OH area earn a median of $82,640 a year, or $39.73 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $91,640. Across all of Ohio, the median is $73,220, so Lima pays 13% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $29.26/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 90
- After cost of living
- $92,160
- Median hourly pay
- $39.73/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +26%
- vs Ohio median
- +13%
- Mean (average) pay
- $77,470 a year · $37.24 an hour
Pay by percentile
What millwrights in Lima, 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 | $29.26 | $60,870 |
| 25th percentile | $31.79 | $66,130 |
| Median (50th) | $39.73 | $82,640 |
| 75th percentile | $44.06 | $91,640 |
| 90th percentile | $44.06 | $91,640 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Lima, OH compares
- Lima ranks 2nd of 11 Ohio metro areas for millwright pay.
- Millwrights are more concentrated in the Lima area than nationally: 1.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 7.0 times the U.S. share.
Other Ohio metro areas
Other trades in Lima, OH
Questions
- Do millwrights make more in Lima or Toledo?
- Toledo pays more: the median is $82,640 in Lima and $83,280 in Toledo, a 1% 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 30620 (Lima, 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 (89.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures