Do plumbers make more in Dothan or Florence?

Florence pays more: the median is $49,070 in Dothan and $60,590 in Florence, a 19% difference.

Plumber salary in Dothan, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Dothan, AL area earn a median of $49,070 a year, or $23.59 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $67,070 a year. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $58,670; Dothan is 16% below it.

Median yearly pay$49,070

Bottom 10% under$35,980Top 10% over$67,070

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.30/hr
Jobs in this area: 130
After cost of living: $58,530
Median hourly pay: $23.59/hr
vs U.S. median: −23%
vs Alabama median: −16%
Mean (average) pay: $51,550 a year · $24.78 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 20020, Dothan, AL). Excludes self-employed plumbers. 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 plumbers in Dothan, AL 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	$17.30	$35,980
25th percentile	$20.02	$41,640
Median (50th)	$23.59	$49,070
75th percentile	$28.37	$59,010
90th percentile	$32.24	$67,070

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

How Dothan, AL compares

Dothan ranks 11th of 13 Alabama metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are less concentrated in the Dothan area than nationally: 2.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.74 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Dothan or Florence?: Florence pays more: the median is $49,070 in Dothan and $60,590 in Florence, a 19% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2152 (Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters), area code 20020 (Dothan, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed plumbers 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 (83.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures