Do plumbers make more in Flagstaff or Phoenix?

Phoenix pays more: the median is $58,520 in Flagstaff and $63,750 in Phoenix, a 8% difference.

Plumber salary in Flagstaff, AZ

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Flagstaff, AZ area earn a median of $58,520 a year, or $28.14 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $76,130 a year. That's 6% less than the Arizona median of $62,070.

Median yearly pay$58,520

Bottom 10% under$46,000Top 10% over$76,130

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.11/hr
Jobs in this area: 90
After cost of living: $58,330
Median hourly pay: $28.14/hr
vs U.S. median: −8%
vs Arizona median: −6%
Mean (average) pay: $59,640 a year · $28.67 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 22380, Flagstaff, AZ). 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 Flagstaff, AZ 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	$22.11	$46,000
25th percentile	$22.76	$47,350
Median (50th)	$28.14	$58,520
75th percentile	$33.14	$68,940
90th percentile	$36.60	$76,130

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

How Flagstaff, AZ compares

Flagstaff ranks 5th of 7 Arizona metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are less concentrated in the Flagstaff area than nationally: 1.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.43 times the U.S. share.

Other Arizona metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Flagstaff or Phoenix?: Phoenix pays more: the median is $58,520 in Flagstaff and $63,750 in Phoenix, a 8% 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 22380 (Flagstaff, AZ). 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 (100.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures