#1Illinois
Top trade: $48.05/hr
Trade pay by state
What 10 skilled trades earn in every US state, from BLS OEWS May 2025, with state job openings and registered apprenticeship counts. State wage pages are publishing as the BLS data comes in; every state page already carries openings and apprenticeship figures.
States with published wage data
#2Washington
Top trade: $45.78/hr
#3Massachusetts
Top trade: $45.14/hr
#4Wisconsin
Top trade: $39.04/hr
#5Michigan
Top trade: $38.56/hr
#6New York
Top trade: $37.86/hr
#7New Jersey
Top trade: $37.61/hr
#8Indiana
Top trade: $36.69/hr
#9California
Top trade: $36.62/hr
#10Maryland
Top trade: $35.33/hr
#11Pennsylvania
Top trade: $32.73/hr
#12Missouri
Top trade: $32.11/hr
#13Ohio
Top trade: $31.11/hr
#14Virginia
Top trade: $30.24/hr
#15Arizona
Top trade: $29.84/hr
#16Tennessee
Top trade: $29.37/hr
#17Texas
Top trade: $28.77/hr
#18Georgia
Top trade: $28.04/hr
#19North Carolina
Top trade: $27.53/hr
#20Florida
Top trade: $27.52/hr
Wage data publishing soon
These states already show annual job openings and apprenticeship counts; BLS median pay fills in as each state pull completes.
- Minnesota
- Colorado
- South Carolina
- Alabama
- Louisiana
- Kentucky
- Oregon
- Oklahoma
- Connecticut
- Utah
- Iowa
- Nevada
- Arkansas
- Mississippi
- Kansas
- New Mexico
- Nebraska
- Idaho
- West Virginia
- Hawaii
- New Hampshire
- Maine
- Montana
- Rhode Island
- Delaware
- South Dakota
- North Dakota
- Alaska
- Vermont
- Wyoming
Wage source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS OEWS May 2025, pulled through the BLS Public Data API. Openings: Projections Central, 2024 to 2034. Apprentices: DOL Registered Apprenticeship, FY2024 active apprentices. Combinations the BLS suppressed are shown as unpublished, never estimated.