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Plumber salary in Hammond, LA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Hammond, LA area earn a median of $57,910 a year, or $27.84 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $76,930. Across all of Louisiana, the median is $63,680, so Hammond pays 9% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$57,910
Bottom 10% under$30,160Top 10% over$76,930
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$14.50/hr
Jobs in this area
110
After cost of living
$68,570
Median hourly pay
$27.84/hr
vs U.S. median
−9%
vs Louisiana median
−9%
Mean (average) pay
$57,960 a year · $27.86 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 25220, Hammond, LA). 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 Hammond, LA 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$14.50$30,160
25th percentile$23.59$49,060
Median (50th)$27.84$57,910
75th percentile$34.82$72,420
90th percentile$36.99$76,930

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

How Hammond, LA compares

  • Hammond ranks 7th of 10 Louisiana metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are less concentrated in the Hammond area than nationally: 2.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.77 times the U.S. share.

Other Louisiana metro areas

Other trades in Hammond, LA

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Hammond or Baton Rouge?
Baton Rouge pays more: the median is $57,910 in Hammond and $74,240 in Baton Rouge, a 22% 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 25220 (Hammond, LA). 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 (84.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures