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Plumber salary in Yuba City, CA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Yuba City, CA area earn a median of $61,120 a year, or $29.38 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $97,830. Across all of California, the median is $72,830, so Yuba City pays 16% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$61,120
Bottom 10% under$44,040Top 10% over$97,830
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$21.17/hr
Jobs in this area
100
After cost of living
$58,640
Median hourly pay
$29.38/hr
vs U.S. median
−4%
vs California median
−16%
Mean (average) pay
$70,210 a year · $33.76 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 49700, Yuba City, CA). 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 Yuba City, CA 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$21.17$44,040
25th percentile$25.14$52,300
Median (50th)$29.38$61,120
75th percentile$37.46$77,910
90th percentile$47.04$97,830

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

How Yuba City, CA compares

  • Yuba City ranks 21st of 25 California metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are less concentrated in the Yuba City area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.65 times the U.S. share.

Other California metro areas

Other trades in Yuba City, CA

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Yuba City or San Jose?
San Jose pays more: the median is $61,120 in Yuba City and $107,560 in San Jose, a 43% 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 49700 (Yuba City, CA). 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 (104.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures