Do plumbers make more in Midland or Austin?

Austin pays more: the median is $60,700 in Midland and $62,810 in Austin, a 3% difference.

Plumber salary in Midland, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Midland, TX area earn a median of $60,700 a year, or $29.18 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $80,760 a year. Statewide, plumbers earn a median of $59,840; Midland is 1% above it.

Median yearly pay$60,700

Bottom 10% under$41,580Top 10% over$80,760

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $19.99/hr
Jobs in this area: 510
After cost of living: $63,370
Median hourly pay: $29.18/hr
vs U.S. median: −5%
vs Texas median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $62,860 a year · $30.22 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33260, Midland, 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 Midland, 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	$19.99	$41,580
25th percentile	$23.45	$48,770
Median (50th)	$29.18	$60,700
75th percentile	$38.46	$79,990
90th percentile	$38.83	$80,760

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

How Midland, TX compares

Midland ranks 6th of 25 Texas metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are more concentrated in the Midland area than nationally: 4.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Midland or Austin?: Austin pays more: the median is $60,700 in Midland and $62,810 in Austin, a 3% 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 33260 (Midland, 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 (95.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures