TradeSalary

Plumber salary in Clarksville, TN-KY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Clarksville, TN-KY area earn a median of $58,930 a year, or $28.33 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $110,660. That's 1% more than the Tennessee median of $58,600.

Median yearly pay$58,930
Bottom 10% under$37,980Top 10% over$110,660
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.26/hr
Jobs in this area
280
After cost of living
$64,800
Median hourly pay
$28.33/hr
vs U.S. median
−8%
vs Tennessee median
+1%
Mean (average) pay
$65,600 a year · $31.54 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 17300, Clarksville, TN-KY). 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 Clarksville, TN-KY 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$18.26$37,980
25th percentile$21.59$44,920
Median (50th)$28.33$58,930
75th percentile$37.55$78,090
90th percentile$53.20$110,660

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

How Clarksville, TN-KY compares

  • Clarksville ranks 4th of 10 Tennessee metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are less concentrated in the Clarksville area than nationally: 2.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.90 times the U.S. share.

Other Tennessee metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Clarksville or Nashville?
Nashville pays more: the median is $58,930 in Clarksville and $60,100 in Nashville, a 2% 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 17300 (Clarksville, TN-KY). 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 (90.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures