Do plumbers make more in Corvallis or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $80,400 in Corvallis and $101,010 in Portland, a 20% difference.

Plumber salary in Corvallis, OR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Corvallis, OR area earn a median of $80,400 a year, or $38.65 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $94,530. That's 17% less than the Oregon median of $97,050.

Median yearly pay$80,400

Bottom 10% under$58,110Top 10% over$94,530

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $27.94/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $77,300
Median hourly pay: $38.65/hr
vs U.S. median: +26%
vs Oregon median: −17%
Mean (average) pay: $78,480 a year · $37.73 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 18700, Corvallis, 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 Corvallis, 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	$27.94	$58,110
25th percentile	$30.09	$62,590
Median (50th)	$38.65	$80,400
75th percentile	$45.04	$93,690
90th percentile	$45.45	$94,530

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

How Corvallis, OR compares

Corvallis ranks 6th of 7 Oregon metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are less concentrated in the Corvallis area than nationally: 2.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.70 times the U.S. share.

Other Oregon metro areas

Other trades in Corvallis, OR

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Corvallis or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $80,400 in Corvallis and $101,010 in Portland, a 20% 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 18700 (Corvallis, 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 (104.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures