Plumber salary in Greeley, CO
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Plumbers in the Greeley, CO area earn a median of $59,350 a year, or $28.53 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $81,180 a year. That's 6% less than the Colorado median of $63,240.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $22.50/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 520
- After cost of living
- $59,250
- Median hourly pay
- $28.53/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −7%
- vs Colorado median
- −6%
- Mean (average) pay
- $62,400 a year · $30.00 an hour
Pay by percentile
What plumbers in Greeley, CO 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 | $22.50 | $46,790 |
| 25th percentile | $23.72 | $49,350 |
| Median (50th) | $28.53 | $59,350 |
| 75th percentile | $34.81 | $72,410 |
| 90th percentile | $39.03 | $81,180 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Greeley, CO compares
- Greeley has the lowest plumber median of the 7 Colorado metro areas with published pay.
- Plumbers are more concentrated in the Greeley area than nationally: 4.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.
Other Colorado metro areas
Other trades in Greeley, CO
Questions
- Do plumbers make more in Greeley or Boulder?
- Boulder pays more: the median is $59,350 in Greeley and $64,890 in Boulder, a 9% 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 24540 (Greeley, CO). 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 (100.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures