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Plumber salary in Atlantic City, NJ

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Atlantic City–Hammonton, NJ area earn a median of $64,220 a year, or $30.87 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $111,780 a year. That's 18% less than the New Jersey median of $78,240.

Median yearly pay$64,220
Bottom 10% under$45,030Top 10% over$111,780
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$21.65/hr
Jobs in this area
530
After cost of living
$64,960
Median hourly pay
$30.87/hr
vs U.S. median
+1%
vs New Jersey median
−18%
Mean (average) pay
$75,010 a year · $36.06 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12100, Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ). 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 Atlantic City, NJ 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$21.65$45,030
25th percentile$27.08$56,320
Median (50th)$30.87$64,220
75th percentile$37.58$78,170
90th percentile$53.74$111,780

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

How Atlantic City, NJ compares

  • Atlantic City has the lowest plumber median of the 6 New Jersey metro areas with published pay.
  • Plumbers hold about the same share of jobs in the Atlantic City area as nationally: 3.1 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other New Jersey metro areas

Other trades in Atlantic City, NJ

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Atlantic City or New York?
New York pays more: the median is $64,220 in Atlantic City and $78,610 in New York, a 18% 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 12100 (Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ). 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 (98.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures