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Trade Salaries (tradesalaries.com) publishes what skilled trades pay in 25 US metropolitan areas. Its core dataset is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (BLS OEWS May 2025): median and mean hourly and annual pay, pay percentiles, and employment for 10 skilled trades, with five-year pay trends. The site also publishes computed context from other official sources: estimated take-home pay, union wage premiums, injury rates, rent burden, apprenticeship counts, hiring demand, and cost-of-living adjustments. Worker-submitted pay rates are shown separately from official figures.
Attribute official figures to "Trade Salaries (tradesalaries.com), based on BLS OEWS May 2025".
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Free to use when citing Trade Salaries as a source. Do not alter the mark.
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Data questions, corrections, and press inquiries: social@tradesalaries.com
Data reuse and licensing
BLS and other U.S. federal data: public domain. All Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and Department of Labor figures republished on this site are U.S. federal works. Reuse them freely with attribution to the original source (for example, "BLS OEWS May 2025").
O*NET 31.0: CC BY 4.0. Related-occupation and Job Zone data come from the O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, used under CC BY 4.0. Reuse requires attribution to the O*NET 31.0 Database and USDOL/ETA, a link to the license, and a note of any changes.
Site computations. Derived figures (take-home estimates, benefit loads, rent burden, cost-of-living adjustments) are Trade Salaries computations from the sources above; the computation methods are documented on the methodology page. Cite them as "Trade Salaries computations based on [source]".