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Millwright salary in El Paso, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the El Paso, TX area earn a median of $53,020 a year, or $25.49 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $106,820 a year. Across all of Texas, the median is $62,630, so El Paso pays 15% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$53,020
Bottom 10% under$41,770Top 10% over$106,820
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$20.08/hr
Jobs in this area
120
After cost of living
$58,970
Median hourly pay
$25.49/hr
vs U.S. median
−19%
vs Texas median
−15%
Mean (average) pay
$65,870 a year · $31.67 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 21340, El Paso, 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 El Paso, 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$20.08$41,770
25th percentile$23.66$49,200
Median (50th)$25.49$53,020
75th percentile$47.83$99,490
90th percentile$51.36$106,820

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

How El Paso, TX compares

  • El Paso has the lowest millwright median of the 8 Texas metro areas with published pay.
  • Millwrights are more concentrated in the El Paso area than nationally: 0.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

Other trades in El Paso, TX

Questions

Do millwrights make more in El Paso or Houston?
Houston pays more: the median is $53,020 in El Paso and $67,750 in Houston, a 22% 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 21340 (El Paso, 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 (89.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures