Millwright salary in Nashville, TN
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Millwrights in the Nashville–Davidson––Murfreesboro––Franklin, TN area earn a median of $61,320 a year, or $29.48 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $76,640. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $61,810; Nashville is 1% below it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $23.80/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 260
- After cost of living
- $63,650
- Median hourly pay
- $29.48/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −7%
- vs Tennessee median
- −1%
- Mean (average) pay
- $61,530 a year · $29.58 an hour
Pay by percentile
What millwrights in Nashville, TN 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 | $23.80 | $49,510 |
| 25th percentile | $25.16 | $52,340 |
| Median (50th) | $29.48 | $61,320 |
| 75th percentile | $33.41 | $69,490 |
| 90th percentile | $36.85 | $76,640 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Nashville, TN compares
- Nashville ranks 4th of 6 Tennessee metro areas for millwright pay.
- Millwrights hold about the same share of jobs in the Nashville area as nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Tennessee metro areas
Other trades in Nashville, TN
Questions
- Do millwrights make more in Nashville or Kingsport?
- Kingsport pays more: the median is $61,320 in Nashville and $66,560 in Kingsport, a 8% 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 34980 (Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN). 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 (96.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures