Do plumbers make more in Binghamton or New York?

Binghamton pays more: the median is $87,990 in Binghamton and $78,610 in New York, a 12% difference.

Plumber salary in Binghamton, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Binghamton, NY area earn a median of $87,990 a year, or $42.30 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $120,910. That's 14% more than the New York median of $77,490.

Median yearly pay$87,990

Bottom 10% under$45,820Top 10% over$120,910

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.03/hr
Jobs in this area: 280
After cost of living: $94,750
Median hourly pay: $42.30/hr
vs U.S. median: +38%
vs New York median: +14%
Mean (average) pay: $83,040 a year · $39.92 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 13780, Binghamton, NY). 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 Binghamton, NY 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	$22.03	$45,820
25th percentile	$28.92	$60,160
Median (50th)	$42.30	$87,990
75th percentile	$46.59	$96,910
90th percentile	$58.13	$120,910

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

How Binghamton, NY compares

Binghamton has the highest plumber median of the 13 New York metro areas with published pay.
Plumbers hold about the same share of jobs in the Binghamton area as nationally: 2.9 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other New York metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Binghamton or New York?: Binghamton pays more: the median is $87,990 in Binghamton and $78,610 in New York, a 12% 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 13780 (Binghamton, NY). 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 (92.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures