Do millwrights make more in Dallas or Houston?

Houston pays more: the median is $65,500 in Dallas and $67,750 in Houston, a 3% difference.

Millwright salary in Dallas, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX area earn a median of $65,500 a year, or $31.49 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $92,490. Across all of Texas, the median is $62,630, so Dallas pays 5% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$65,500

Bottom 10% under$44,550Top 10% over$92,490

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.42/hr
Jobs in this area: 640
After cost of living: $63,540
Median hourly pay: $31.49/hr
vs U.S. median: 0%
vs Texas median: +5%
Mean (average) pay: $66,080 a year · $31.77 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 19100, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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 Dallas, 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	$21.42	$44,550
25th percentile	$22.40	$46,590
Median (50th)	$31.49	$65,500
75th percentile	$38.12	$79,290
90th percentile	$44.47	$92,490

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

How Dallas, TX compares

Dallas ranks 2nd of 8 Texas metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are less concentrated in the Dallas area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.61 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Dallas or Houston?: Houston pays more: the median is $65,500 in Dallas and $67,750 in Houston, a 3% 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 19100 (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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 (103.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures