Do plumbers make more in Wichita or Kansas City?

Kansas City pays more: the median is $60,940 in Wichita and $76,150 in Kansas City, a 20% difference.

Plumber salary in Wichita, KS

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Wichita, KS area earn a median of $60,940 a year, or $29.30 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $93,630. That's 7% less than the Kansas median of $65,220.

Median yearly pay$60,940

Bottom 10% under$38,290Top 10% over$93,630

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.41/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,060
After cost of living: $68,510
Median hourly pay: $29.30/hr
vs U.S. median: −4%
vs Kansas median: −7%
Mean (average) pay: $66,780 a year · $32.10 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 48620, Wichita, KS). 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 Wichita, KS 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	$18.41	$38,290
25th percentile	$23.29	$48,440
Median (50th)	$29.30	$60,940
75th percentile	$39.21	$81,550
90th percentile	$45.02	$93,630

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

How Wichita, KS compares

Wichita ranks 5th of 7 Kansas metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are more concentrated in the Wichita area than nationally: 3.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.1 times the U.S. share.

Other Kansas metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Wichita or Kansas City?: Kansas City pays more: the median is $60,940 in Wichita and $76,150 in Kansas City, a 20% 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 48620 (Wichita, KS). 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 (88.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures