Plumber salary in Bridgeport, CT
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Plumbers in the Bridgeport–Stamford–Danbury, CT area earn a median of $79,700 a year, or $38.32 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $119,250. Across all of Connecticut, the median is $77,280, so Bridgeport pays 3% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $22.57/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 1,000
- After cost of living
- $74,580
- Median hourly pay
- $38.32/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +25%
- vs Connecticut median
- +3%
- Mean (average) pay
- $79,490 a year · $38.22 an hour
Pay by percentile
What plumbers in Bridgeport, CT 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 | $22.57 | $46,940 |
| 25th percentile | $29.22 | $60,770 |
| Median (50th) | $38.32 | $79,700 |
| 75th percentile | $46.99 | $97,730 |
| 90th percentile | $57.33 | $119,250 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Bridgeport, CT compares
- Bridgeport has the highest plumber median of the 5 Connecticut metro areas with published pay.
- Plumbers are less concentrated in the Bridgeport area than nationally: 2.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.82 times the U.S. share.
Other Connecticut metro areas
Other trades in Bridgeport, CT
Questions
- Do plumbers make more in Bridgeport or New Haven?
- Bridgeport pays more: the median is $79,700 in Bridgeport and $77,620 in New Haven, a 3% 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 14860 (Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT). 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 (106.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures