Do millwrights make more in Portland or Albany?

Portland pays more: the median is $76,200 in Portland and $63,060 in Albany, a 21% difference.

Millwright salary in Portland, OR-WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR-WA area earn a median of $76,200 a year, or $36.64 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $110,670. Across all of Oregon, the median is $70,700, so Portland pays 8% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$76,200

Bottom 10% under$58,800Top 10% over$110,670

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $28.27/hr
Jobs in this area: 240
After cost of living: $72,280
Median hourly pay: $36.64/hr
vs U.S. median: +16%
vs Oregon median: +8%
Mean (average) pay: $83,460 a year · $40.13 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 38900, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA). 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 Portland, OR-WA 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	$28.27	$58,800
25th percentile	$33.47	$69,610
Median (50th)	$36.64	$76,200
75th percentile	$49.25	$102,440
90th percentile	$53.21	$110,670

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

How Portland, OR-WA compares

Millwrights are less concentrated in the Portland area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.77 times the U.S. share.

Other Oregon metro areas

Albany$63,060

Other trades in Portland, OR-WA

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Portland or Albany?: Portland pays more: the median is $76,200 in Portland and $63,060 in Albany, a 21% 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 38900 (Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA). 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 (105.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures