Millwright salary in Sherman, TX
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Millwrights in the Sherman–Denison, TX area earn a median of $64,240 a year, or $30.88 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $74,500. Across all of Texas, the median is $62,630, so Sherman pays 3% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $29.20/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 50
- After cost of living
- $68,510
- Median hourly pay
- $30.88/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −2%
- vs Texas median
- +3%
- Mean (average) pay
- $67,740 a year · $32.57 an hour
Pay by percentile
What millwrights in Sherman, 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 | $29.20 | $60,740 |
| 25th percentile | $30.74 | $63,950 |
| Median (50th) | $30.88 | $64,240 |
| 75th percentile | $35.82 | $74,500 |
| 90th percentile | $35.82 | $74,500 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Sherman, TX compares
- Sherman ranks 3rd of 8 Texas metro areas for millwright pay.
- Millwrights are more concentrated in the Sherman area than nationally: 0.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 3.5 times the U.S. share.
Other Texas metro areas
Other trades in Sherman, TX
Questions
- Do millwrights make more in Sherman or Houston?
- Houston pays more: the median is $64,240 in Sherman 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 43300 (Sherman-Denison, 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 (93.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures