Do plumbers make more in Lubbock or Austin?

Austin pays more: the median is $48,950 in Lubbock and $62,810 in Austin, a 22% difference.

Plumber salary in Lubbock, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Lubbock, TX area earn a median of $48,950 a year, or $23.54 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $80,100. Across all of Texas, the median is $59,840, so Lubbock pays 18% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$48,950

Bottom 10% under$36,400Top 10% over$80,100

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.50/hr
Jobs in this area: 550
After cost of living: $53,600
Median hourly pay: $23.54/hr
vs U.S. median: −23%
vs Texas median: −18%
Mean (average) pay: $54,380 a year · $26.15 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31180, Lubbock, 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 Lubbock, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$17.50	$36,400
25th percentile	$18.23	$37,920
Median (50th)	$23.54	$48,950
75th percentile	$29.75	$61,870
90th percentile	$38.51	$80,100

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

How Lubbock, TX compares

Lubbock ranks 20th of 25 Texas metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers hold about the same share of jobs in the Lubbock area as nationally: 3.3 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Lubbock or Austin?: Austin pays more: the median is $48,950 in Lubbock and $62,810 in Austin, a 22% 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 31180 (Lubbock, 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 (91.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures