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Plumber salary in Gulfport, MS

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Gulfport–Biloxi, MS area earn a median of $63,040 a year, or $30.31 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $72,390 a year. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $55,480; Gulfport is 14% above it.

Median yearly pay$63,040
Bottom 10% under$39,630Top 10% over$72,390
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$19.05/hr
Jobs in this area
1,240
After cost of living
$70,040
Median hourly pay
$30.31/hr
vs U.S. median
−1%
vs Mississippi median
+14%
Mean (average) pay
$58,570 a year · $28.16 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 25060, Gulfport-Biloxi, MS). 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 Gulfport, MS 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$19.05$39,630
25th percentile$23.38$48,640
Median (50th)$30.31$63,040
75th percentile$30.31$63,040
90th percentile$34.81$72,390

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

How Gulfport, MS compares

  • Gulfport has the highest plumber median of the 4 Mississippi metro areas with published pay.
  • Plumbers are more concentrated in the Gulfport area than nationally: 7.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.6 times the U.S. share.

Other Mississippi metro areas

Other trades in Gulfport, MS

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Gulfport or Memphis?
Gulfport pays more: the median is $63,040 in Gulfport and $58,690 in Memphis, a 7% 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 25060 (Gulfport-Biloxi, MS). 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 (90.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures