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Plumber salary in Sebastian, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Sebastian–Vero Beach–West Vero Corridor, FL area earn a median of $55,900 a year, or $26.88 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $76,270. Across all of Florida, the median is $52,910, so Sebastian pays 6% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$55,900
Bottom 10% under$39,740Top 10% over$76,270
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$19.11/hr
Jobs in this area
210
After cost of living
$56,860
Median hourly pay
$26.88/hr
vs U.S. median
−12%
vs Florida median
+6%
Mean (average) pay
$58,390 a year · $28.07 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 42680, Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL). 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 Sebastian, FL 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$19.11$39,740
25th percentile$23.52$48,910
Median (50th)$26.88$55,900
75th percentile$30.77$64,000
90th percentile$36.67$76,270

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

How Sebastian, FL compares

  • Sebastian ranks 6th of 22 Florida metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are more concentrated in the Sebastian area than nationally: 3.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Sebastian or Jacksonville?
Jacksonville pays more: the median is $55,900 in Sebastian and $58,920 in Jacksonville, a 5% 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 42680 (Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL). 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 (98.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures