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Millwright salary in Corpus Christi, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Corpus Christi, TX area earn a median of $63,890 a year, or $30.72 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $78,160. Across all of Texas, the median is $62,630, so Corpus Christi pays 2% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$63,890
Bottom 10% under$44,420Top 10% over$78,160
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$21.36/hr
Jobs in this area
110
After cost of living
$68,940
Median hourly pay
$30.72/hr
vs U.S. median
−3%
vs Texas median
+2%
Mean (average) pay
$65,720 a year · $31.60 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 18580, Corpus Christi, 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 Corpus Christi, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$21.36$44,420
25th percentile$27.11$56,390
Median (50th)$30.72$63,890
75th percentile$36.38$75,670
90th percentile$37.58$78,160

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

How Corpus Christi, TX compares

  • Corpus Christi ranks 5th of 8 Texas metro areas for millwright pay.
  • Millwrights are more concentrated in the Corpus Christi area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.2 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Corpus Christi or Houston?
Houston pays more: the median is $63,890 in Corpus Christi and $67,750 in Houston, a 6% 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 18580 (Corpus Christi, 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 (92.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures