TradeSalary

Plumber salary in Tallahassee, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Tallahassee, FL area earn a median of $48,540 a year, or $23.34 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $69,870 a year. Across all of Florida, the median is $52,910, so Tallahassee pays 8% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$48,540
Bottom 10% under$37,750Top 10% over$69,870
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.15/hr
Jobs in this area
480
After cost of living
$51,680
Median hourly pay
$23.34/hr
vs U.S. median
−24%
vs Florida median
−8%
Mean (average) pay
$52,490 a year · $25.24 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45220, Tallahassee, 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 Tallahassee, 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$18.15$37,750
25th percentile$20.51$42,660
Median (50th)$23.34$48,540
75th percentile$28.54$59,350
90th percentile$33.59$69,870

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

How Tallahassee, FL compares

  • Tallahassee ranks 20th of 22 Florida metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are less concentrated in the Tallahassee area than nationally: 2.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.86 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

Other trades in Tallahassee, FL

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Tallahassee or Jacksonville?
Jacksonville pays more: the median is $48,540 in Tallahassee and $58,920 in Jacksonville, a 18% 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 45220 (Tallahassee, 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 (93.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures