Do plumbers make more in Minot or Bismarck?

Bismarck pays more: the median is $62,400 in Minot and $70,310 in Bismarck, a 11% difference.

Plumber salary in Minot, ND

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Minot, ND area earn a median of $62,400 a year, or $30.00 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $82,380. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $63,560; Minot is 2% below it.

Median yearly pay$62,400

Bottom 10% under$46,030Top 10% over$82,380

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.13/hr
Jobs in this area: 150
After cost of living: $71,700
Median hourly pay: $30.00/hr
vs U.S. median: −2%
vs North Dakota median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $65,250 a year · $31.37 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33500, Minot, ND). 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 Minot, ND 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	$22.13	$46,030
25th percentile	$23.93	$49,780
Median (50th)	$30.00	$62,400
75th percentile	$35.72	$74,290
90th percentile	$39.61	$82,380

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

How Minot, ND compares

Minot has the lowest plumber median of the 4 North Dakota metro areas with published pay.
Plumbers are more concentrated in the Minot area than nationally: 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

Other North Dakota metro areas

Other trades in Minot, ND

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Minot or Bismarck?: Bismarck pays more: the median is $62,400 in Minot and $70,310 in Bismarck, a 11% 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 33500 (Minot, ND). 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 (87.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures