Do millwrights make more in Wausau or Green Bay?

Green Bay pays more: the median is $83,480 in Wausau and $84,880 in Green Bay, a 2% difference.

Millwright salary in Wausau, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Wausau, WI area earn a median of $83,480 a year, or $40.13 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $91,050. Across all of Wisconsin, the median is $82,630, so Wausau pays 1% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$83,480

Bottom 10% under$70,820Top 10% over$91,050

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $34.05/hr
Jobs in this area: 50
After cost of living: $90,100
Median hourly pay: $40.13/hr
vs U.S. median: +27%
vs Wisconsin median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $79,100 a year · $38.03 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 48140, Wausau, 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 Wausau, 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	$34.05	$70,820
25th percentile	$34.05	$70,820
Median (50th)	$40.13	$83,480
75th percentile	$43.00	$89,440
90th percentile	$43.78	$91,050

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

How Wausau, WI compares

Wausau ranks 5th of 8 Wisconsin metro areas for millwright pay.
Millwrights are more concentrated in the Wausau area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.7 times the U.S. share.

Other Wisconsin metro areas

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Wausau or Green Bay?: Green Bay pays more: the median is $83,480 in Wausau and $84,880 in Green Bay, a 2% 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 48140 (Wausau, 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 (92.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures