Do plumbers make more in Gadsden or Florence?

Florence pays more: the median is $47,350 in Gadsden and $60,590 in Florence, a 22% difference.

Plumber salary in Gadsden, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Gadsden, AL area earn a median of $47,350 a year, or $22.76 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $66,280. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $58,670; Gadsden is 19% below it.

Median yearly pay$47,350

Bottom 10% under$28,050Top 10% over$66,280

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $13.48/hr
Jobs in this area: 100
After cost of living: $55,280
Median hourly pay: $22.76/hr
vs U.S. median: −26%
vs Alabama median: −19%
Mean (average) pay: $49,290 a year · $23.70 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 23460, Gadsden, 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 Gadsden, 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	$13.48	$28,050
25th percentile	$17.85	$37,120
Median (50th)	$22.76	$47,350
75th percentile	$27.90	$58,030
90th percentile	$31.86	$66,280

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

How Gadsden, AL compares

Gadsden has the lowest plumber median of the 13 Alabama metro areas with published pay.
Plumbers hold about the same share of jobs in the Gadsden area as nationally: 3.1 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Alabama metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Gadsden or Florence?: Florence pays more: the median is $47,350 in Gadsden and $60,590 in Florence, a 22% 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 23460 (Gadsden, 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 (85.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures