Do millwrights make more in Green Bay or Milwaukee?

Pay is about the same: the median is $84,880 in Green Bay and $84,850 in Milwaukee.

Millwright salary in Green Bay, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Green Bay, WI area earn a median of $84,880 a year, or $40.81 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $92,520. That's 3% more than the Wisconsin median of $82,630.

Median yearly pay$84,880

Bottom 10% under$51,390Top 10% over$92,520

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $24.71/hr
Jobs in this area: 200
After cost of living: $91,180
Median hourly pay: $40.81/hr
vs U.S. median: +29%
vs Wisconsin median: +3%
Mean (average) pay: $79,450 a year · $38.20 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 24580, Green Bay, WI). 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 Green Bay, WI 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	$24.71	$51,390
25th percentile	$34.88	$72,550
Median (50th)	$40.81	$84,880
75th percentile	$44.42	$92,400
90th percentile	$44.48	$92,520

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

How Green Bay, WI compares

Green Bay ranks 2nd of 8 Wisconsin metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are more concentrated in the Green Bay area than nationally: 1.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 4.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Wisconsin metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Green Bay or Milwaukee?: Pay is about the same: the median is $84,880 in Green Bay and $84,850 in Milwaukee.

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 24580 (Green Bay, WI). 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 (93.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures