TradeSalary

Plumber salary in Hagerstown, MD-WV

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Hagerstown–Martinsburg, MD-WV area earn a median of $55,130 a year, or $26.50 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $87,880. Across all of Maryland, the median is $65,400, so Hagerstown pays 16% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$55,130
Bottom 10% under$37,530Top 10% over$87,880
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.04/hr
Jobs in this area
250
After cost of living
$58,540
Median hourly pay
$26.50/hr
vs U.S. median
−14%
vs Maryland median
−16%
Mean (average) pay
$58,480 a year · $28.12 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 25180, Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV). 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 Hagerstown, MD-WV 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$18.04$37,530
25th percentile$22.06$45,890
Median (50th)$26.50$55,130
75th percentile$32.67$67,940
90th percentile$42.25$87,880

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

How Hagerstown, MD-WV compares

  • Hagerstown has the lowest plumber median of the 6 Maryland metro areas with published pay.
  • Plumbers are less concentrated in the Hagerstown area than nationally: 2.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.79 times the U.S. share.

Other Maryland metro areas

Other trades in Hagerstown, MD-WV

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Hagerstown or Philadelphia?
Philadelphia pays more: the median is $55,130 in Hagerstown and $74,860 in Philadelphia, a 26% 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 25180 (Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV). 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 (94.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures