Do plumbers make more in Syracuse or New York?

New York pays more: the median is $67,040 in Syracuse and $78,610 in New York, a 15% difference.

Plumber salary in Syracuse, NY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Syracuse, NY area earn a median of $67,040 a year, or $32.23 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $99,450 a year. That's 13% less than the New York median of $77,490.

Median yearly pay$67,040

Bottom 10% under$44,720Top 10% over$99,450

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.50/hr
Jobs in this area: 840
After cost of living: $70,020
Median hourly pay: $32.23/hr
vs U.S. median: +5%
vs New York median: −13%
Mean (average) pay: $71,590 a year · $34.42 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45060, Syracuse, 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 Syracuse, 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	$21.50	$44,720
25th percentile	$24.55	$51,070
Median (50th)	$32.23	$67,040
75th percentile	$44.32	$92,190
90th percentile	$47.81	$99,450

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

How Syracuse, NY compares

Syracuse ranks 9th of 13 New York metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers hold about the same share of jobs in the Syracuse area as nationally: 2.8 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other New York metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Syracuse or New York?: New York pays more: the median is $67,040 in Syracuse and $78,610 in New York, a 15% 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 45060 (Syracuse, 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 (95.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures