Do plumbers make more in Albany or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $84,620 in Albany and $101,010 in Portland, a 16% difference.

Plumber salary in Albany, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Albany, OR area earn a median of $84,620 a year, or $40.68 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $103,730 a year. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $97,050; Albany is 13% below it.

Median yearly pay$84,620

Bottom 10% under$46,790Top 10% over$103,730

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.49/hr
Jobs in this area: 130
After cost of living: $82,880
Median hourly pay: $40.68/hr
vs U.S. median: +33%
vs Oregon median: −13%
Mean (average) pay: $80,820 a year · $38.86 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 10540, Albany, OR). 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 Albany, OR 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	$22.49	$46,790
25th percentile	$28.46	$59,190
Median (50th)	$40.68	$84,620
75th percentile	$45.93	$95,530
90th percentile	$49.87	$103,730

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

How Albany, OR compares

Albany ranks 4th of 7 Oregon metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are less concentrated in the Albany area than nationally: 2.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.90 times the U.S. share.

Other Oregon metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Albany or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $84,620 in Albany and $101,010 in Portland, a 16% 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 10540 (Albany, OR). 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 (102.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures