Plumber salary in Savannah, GA
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Plumbers in the Savannah, GA area earn a median of $60,530 a year, or $29.10 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $78,840. Across all of Georgia, the median is $57,200, so Savannah pays 6% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $18.07/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 380
- After cost of living
- $63,580
- Median hourly pay
- $29.10/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −5%
- vs Georgia median
- +6%
- Mean (average) pay
- $59,510 a year · $28.61 an hour
Pay by percentile
What plumbers in Savannah, GA 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 | $18.07 | $37,580 |
| 25th percentile | $22.04 | $45,840 |
| Median (50th) | $29.10 | $60,530 |
| 75th percentile | $35.23 | $73,280 |
| 90th percentile | $37.90 | $78,840 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Savannah, GA compares
- Savannah has the highest plumber median of the 15 Georgia metro areas with published pay.
- Plumbers are less concentrated in the Savannah area than nationally: 1.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.63 times the U.S. share.
Other Georgia metro areas
Other trades in Savannah, GA
Questions
- Do plumbers make more in Savannah or Chattanooga?
- Savannah pays more: the median is $60,530 in Savannah and $58,720 in Chattanooga, 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 42340 (Savannah, GA). 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 (95.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures