Do millwrights make more in Toledo or Akron?

Toledo pays more: the median is $83,280 in Toledo and $77,570 in Akron, a 7% difference.

Millwright salary in Toledo, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Toledo, OH area earn a median of $83,280 a year, or $40.04 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $92,110 a year. That's 14% more than the Ohio median of $73,220.

Median yearly pay$83,280

Bottom 10% under$57,540Top 10% over$92,110

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $27.66/hr
Jobs in this area: 280
After cost of living: $91,060
Median hourly pay: $40.04/hr
vs U.S. median: +27%
vs Ohio median: +14%
Mean (average) pay: $77,250 a year · $37.14 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45780, Toledo, 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 Toledo, 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	$27.66	$57,540
25th percentile	$33.17	$69,000
Median (50th)	$40.04	$83,280
75th percentile	$40.04	$83,280
90th percentile	$44.29	$92,110

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

How Toledo, OH compares

Toledo has the highest millwright median of the 11 Ohio metro areas with published pay.
Millwrights are more concentrated in the Toledo area than nationally: 1.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 3.7 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Toledo or Akron?: Toledo pays more: the median is $83,280 in Toledo and $77,570 in Akron, a 7% 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 45780 (Toledo, 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 (91.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures