Do plumbers make more in Reno or Carson City?

Reno pays more: the median is $77,020 in Reno and $64,040 in Carson City, a 20% difference.

Plumber salary in Reno, NV

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Reno, NV area earn a median of $77,020 a year, or $37.03 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $111,540 a year. That's 25% more than the Nevada median of $61,610.

Median yearly pay$77,020

Bottom 10% under$44,200Top 10% over$111,540

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.25/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,170
After cost of living: $76,250
Median hourly pay: $37.03/hr
vs U.S. median: +21%
vs Nevada median: +25%
Mean (average) pay: $75,820 a year · $36.45 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39900, Reno, NV). 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 Reno, NV 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	$21.25	$44,200
25th percentile	$28.14	$58,520
Median (50th)	$37.03	$77,020
75th percentile	$44.33	$92,200
90th percentile	$53.63	$111,540

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

How Reno, NV compares

Reno has the highest plumber median of the 3 Nevada metro areas with published pay.
Plumbers are more concentrated in the Reno area than nationally: 4.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Nevada metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Reno or Carson City?: Reno pays more: the median is $77,020 in Reno and $64,040 in Carson 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 39900 (Reno, NV). 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 (101.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures