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Millwright salary in Lynchburg, VA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Lynchburg, VA area earn a median of $45,760 a year, or $22.00 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $50,280 a year. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $51,430; Lynchburg is 11% below it.

Median yearly pay$45,760
Bottom 10% under$42,830Top 10% over$50,280
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$20.59/hr
Jobs in this area
50
After cost of living
$51,210
Median hourly pay
$22.00/hr
vs U.S. median
−30%
vs Virginia median
−11%
Mean (average) pay
$47,720 a year · $22.94 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31340, Lynchburg, VA). 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 Lynchburg, VA 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$20.59$42,830
25th percentile$22.00$45,760
Median (50th)$22.00$45,760
75th percentile$22.00$45,760
90th percentile$24.17$50,280

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

How Lynchburg, VA compares

  • Lynchburg has the lowest millwright median of the 5 Virginia metro areas with published pay.
  • Millwrights are more concentrated in the Lynchburg area than nationally: 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Virginia metro areas

Other trades in Lynchburg, VA

Questions

Do millwrights make more in Lynchburg or Kingsport?
Kingsport pays more: the median is $45,760 in Lynchburg and $66,560 in Kingsport, a 31% 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 31340 (Lynchburg, VA). 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 (89.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures