Plumber salary in Cedar Rapids, IA
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Plumbers in the Cedar Rapids, IA area earn a median of $83,210 a year, or $40.01 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $94,590 a year. Across all of Iowa, the median is $63,890, so Cedar Rapids pays 30% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $22.99/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 780
- After cost of living
- $93,530
- Median hourly pay
- $40.01/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +30%
- vs Iowa median
- +30%
- Mean (average) pay
- $73,740 a year · $35.45 an hour
Pay by percentile
What plumbers in Cedar Rapids, IA 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 | $22.99 | $47,830 |
| 25th percentile | $24.95 | $51,890 |
| Median (50th) | $40.01 | $83,210 |
| 75th percentile | $41.02 | $85,320 |
| 90th percentile | $45.48 | $94,590 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Cedar Rapids, IA compares
- Cedar Rapids has the highest plumber median of the 9 Iowa metro areas with published pay.
- Plumbers are more concentrated in the Cedar Rapids area than nationally: 5.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.
Other Iowa metro areas
Other trades in Cedar Rapids, IA
Questions
- Do plumbers make more in Cedar Rapids or Davenport?
- Cedar Rapids pays more: the median is $83,210 in Cedar Rapids and $76,310 in Davenport, 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 16300 (Cedar Rapids, IA). 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 (89.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures