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Plumber salary in Laredo, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Laredo, TX area earn a median of $46,350 a year, or $22.28 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $69,750 a year. That's 23% less than the Texas median of $59,840.

Median yearly pay$46,350
Bottom 10% under$32,600Top 10% over$69,750
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$15.67/hr
Jobs in this area
120
After cost of living
$53,300
Median hourly pay
$22.28/hr
vs U.S. median
−27%
vs Texas median
−23%
Mean (average) pay
$49,450 a year · $23.77 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 29700, Laredo, TX). 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 Laredo, TX 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$15.67$32,600
25th percentile$19.29$40,110
Median (50th)$22.28$46,350
75th percentile$27.91$58,050
90th percentile$33.53$69,750

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

How Laredo, TX compares

  • Laredo ranks 24th of 25 Texas metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are less concentrated in the Laredo area than nationally: 1.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.37 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

Other trades in Laredo, TX

Questions

Do plumbers make more in Laredo or Austin?
Austin pays more: the median is $46,350 in Laredo and $62,810 in Austin, a 26% 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 29700 (Laredo, TX). 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 (87.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures