Do plumbers make more in Lewiston or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $62,140 in Lewiston and $64,500 in Portland, a 4% difference.

Plumber salary in Lewiston, ME

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Lewiston–Auburn, ME area earn a median of $62,140 a year, or $29.88 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $77,500. That's 3% less than the Maine median of $64,000.

Median yearly pay$62,140

Bottom 10% under$44,990Top 10% over$77,500

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.63/hr
Jobs in this area: 190
After cost of living: $65,590
Median hourly pay: $29.88/hr
vs U.S. median: −3%
vs Maine median: −3%
Mean (average) pay: $64,140 a year · $30.84 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 30340, Lewiston-Auburn, ME). 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 Lewiston, ME 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	$21.63	$44,990
25th percentile	$29.41	$61,180
Median (50th)	$29.88	$62,140
75th percentile	$36.10	$75,090
90th percentile	$37.26	$77,500

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

How Lewiston, ME compares

Lewiston ranks 2nd of 3 Maine metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are more concentrated in the Lewiston area than nationally: 4.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Maine metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Lewiston or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $62,140 in Lewiston and $64,500 in Portland, a 4% 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 30340 (Lewiston-Auburn, ME). 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 (94.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures