Do plumbers make more in Toledo or Cincinnati?

Toledo pays more: the median is $66,920 in Toledo and $65,160 in Cincinnati, a 3% difference.

Plumber salary in Toledo, OH

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Toledo, OH area earn a median of $66,920 a year, or $32.18 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $103,520 a year. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $63,330; Toledo is 6% above it.

Median yearly pay$66,920

Bottom 10% under$46,530Top 10% over$103,520

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.37/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,100
After cost of living: $73,170
Median hourly pay: $32.18/hr
vs U.S. median: +5%
vs Ohio median: +6%
Mean (average) pay: $73,220 a year · $35.20 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45780, Toledo, 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 Toledo, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$22.37	$46,530
25th percentile	$24.40	$50,740
Median (50th)	$32.18	$66,920
75th percentile	$47.54	$98,890
90th percentile	$49.77	$103,520

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

How Toledo, OH compares

Toledo has the highest plumber median of the 15 Ohio metro areas with published pay.
Plumbers are more concentrated in the Toledo area than nationally: 3.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Ohio metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Toledo or Cincinnati?: Toledo pays more: the median is $66,920 in Toledo and $65,160 in Cincinnati, a 3% 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 45780 (Toledo, 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 (91.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures