Do millwrights make more in Erie or Philadelphia?

Philadelphia pays more: the median is $61,260 in Erie and $77,120 in Philadelphia, a 21% difference.

Millwright salary in Erie, PA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Erie, PA area earn a median of $61,260 a year, or $29.45 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $66,890 a year. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $64,410; Erie is 5% below it.

Median yearly pay$61,260

Bottom 10% under$38,680Top 10% over$66,890

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.60/hr
Jobs in this area: 70
After cost of living: $67,360
Median hourly pay: $29.45/hr
vs U.S. median: −7%
vs Pennsylvania median: −5%
Mean (average) pay: $60,560 a year · $29.11 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 21500, Erie, PA). 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 Erie, PA 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	$18.60	$38,680
25th percentile	$24.03	$49,990
Median (50th)	$29.45	$61,260
75th percentile	$32.16	$66,890
90th percentile	$32.16	$66,890

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

How Erie, PA compares

Erie has the lowest millwright median of the 9 Pennsylvania metro areas with published pay.
Millwrights are more concentrated in the Erie area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.2 times the U.S. share.

Other Pennsylvania metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Erie or Philadelphia?: Philadelphia pays more: the median is $61,260 in Erie and $77,120 in Philadelphia, 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 21500 (Erie, PA). 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 (91.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures