Do millwrights make more in Richmond or Kingsport?

Kingsport pays more: the median is $48,890 in Richmond and $66,560 in Kingsport, a 27% difference.

Millwright salary in Richmond, VA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Richmond, VA area earn a median of $48,890 a year, or $23.50 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $75,360. That's 5% less than the Virginia median of $51,430.

Median yearly pay$48,890

Bottom 10% under$45,530Top 10% over$75,360

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.89/hr
Jobs in this area: 150
After cost of living: $49,960
Median hourly pay: $23.50/hr
vs U.S. median: −26%
vs Virginia median: −5%
Mean (average) pay: $54,400 a year · $26.15 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 40060, Richmond, 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 Richmond, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$21.89	$45,530
25th percentile	$22.00	$45,760
Median (50th)	$23.50	$48,890
75th percentile	$29.02	$60,360
90th percentile	$36.23	$75,360

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

How Richmond, VA compares

Richmond ranks 4th of 5 Virginia metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are less concentrated in the Richmond area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.90 times the U.S. share.

Other Virginia metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Richmond or Kingsport?: Kingsport pays more: the median is $48,890 in Richmond and $66,560 in Kingsport, a 27% 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 40060 (Richmond, 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 (97.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures