TradeSalary

Plumber salary in Bremerton, WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Bremerton–Silverdale–Port Orchard, WA area earn a median of $82,960 a year, or $39.89 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $102,290. Across all of Washington, the median is $81,030, so Bremerton pays 2% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$82,960
Bottom 10% under$57,760Top 10% over$102,290
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$27.77/hr
Jobs in this area
1,040
After cost of living
$78,560
Median hourly pay
$39.89/hr
vs U.S. median
+30%
vs Washington median
+2%
Mean (average) pay
$80,790 a year · $38.84 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 14740, Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA). 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 Bremerton, WA 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$27.77$57,760
25th percentile$30.11$62,630
Median (50th)$39.89$82,960
75th percentile$45.94$95,560
90th percentile$49.18$102,290

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

How Bremerton, WA compares

  • Bremerton ranks 5th of 13 Washington metro areas for plumber pay.
  • Plumbers are more concentrated in the Bremerton area than nationally: 11.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 3.7 times the U.S. share.

Other Washington metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Bremerton or Bellingham?
Bellingham pays more: the median is $82,960 in Bremerton and $102,750 in Bellingham, a 19% 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 14740 (Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA). 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 (105.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures