TradeSalary

Plumber salary in Texarkana, TX-AR

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Texarkana, TX-AR area earn a median of $48,480 a year, or $23.31 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $75,610 a year. That's 19% less than the Texas median of $59,840.

Median yearly pay$48,480
Bottom 10% under$34,130Top 10% over$75,610
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$16.41/hr
Jobs in this area
150
After cost of living
$57,710
Median hourly pay
$23.31/hr
vs U.S. median
−24%
vs Texas median
−19%
Mean (average) pay
$52,070 a year · $25.03 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45500, Texarkana, TX-AR). 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 Texarkana, TX-AR 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$16.41$34,130
25th percentile$18.75$39,000
Median (50th)$23.31$48,480
75th percentile$28.45$59,170
90th percentile$36.35$75,610

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

How Texarkana, TX-AR compares

  • Texarkana ranks 21st of 25 Texas metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are less concentrated in the Texarkana area than nationally: 2.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.86 times the U.S. share.

Other Texas metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Texarkana or Austin?
Austin pays more: the median is $48,480 in Texarkana and $62,810 in Austin, a 23% 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 45500 (Texarkana, TX-AR). 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 (84.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures