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Plumber salary in Springfield, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Springfield, OH area earn a median of $58,060 a year, or $27.91 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $78,660. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $63,330; Springfield is 8% below it.

Median yearly pay$58,060
Bottom 10% under$45,410Top 10% over$78,660
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$21.83/hr
Jobs in this area
90
After cost of living
$64,170
Median hourly pay
$27.91/hr
vs U.S. median
−9%
vs Ohio median
−8%
Mean (average) pay
$62,790 a year · $30.19 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 44220, Springfield, OH). 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 Springfield, OH 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$21.83$45,410
25th percentile$25.99$54,070
Median (50th)$27.91$58,060
75th percentile$36.95$76,860
90th percentile$37.82$78,660

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

How Springfield, OH compares

  • Springfield has the lowest plumber median of the 15 Ohio metro areas with published pay.
  • Plumbers are less concentrated in the Springfield area than nationally: 2.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.68 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

Other trades in Springfield, OH

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Springfield or Toledo?
Toledo pays more: the median is $58,060 in Springfield and $66,920 in Toledo, a 13% 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 44220 (Springfield, OH). 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 (90.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures