Do millwrights make more in Beaumont or Houston?

Houston pays more: the median is $64,070 in Beaumont and $67,750 in Houston, a 5% difference.

Millwright salary in Beaumont, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Beaumont–Port Arthur, TX area earn a median of $64,070 a year, or $30.80 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $97,840. That's 2% more than the Texas median of $62,630.

Median yearly pay$64,070

Bottom 10% under$47,750Top 10% over$97,840

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.96/hr
Jobs in this area: 100
After cost of living: $71,150
Median hourly pay: $30.80/hr
vs U.S. median: −2%
vs Texas median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $69,530 a year · $33.43 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13140, Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX). 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 Beaumont, TX 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	$22.96	$47,750
25th percentile	$29.61	$61,590
Median (50th)	$30.80	$64,070
75th percentile	$38.10	$79,240
90th percentile	$47.04	$97,840

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

How Beaumont, TX compares

Beaumont ranks 4th of 8 Texas metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are more concentrated in the Beaumont area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Beaumont or Houston?: Houston pays more: the median is $64,070 in Beaumont and $67,750 in Houston, a 5% 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 13140 (Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX). 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 (90.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures