West Virginia trade pay

Statewide BLS medians for West Virginia are not published yet, so no pay ranking appears here. The 10-trade table above still lists annual openings and apprentice counts for every trade, and medians fill in as each state pull completes. City-level BLS pay is published for 18 states on metro pages.

The BLS has not published statewide medians for West Virginia yet, so the top-paying trade cannot be ranked from official figures. Demand is strongest for maintenance workers, with about 810 statewide annual openings projected. State medians will appear here as the BLS publishes them.

Projections Central expects about 3,470 trade openings a year in West Virginia from 2024 to 2034, across the 10 tracked trades. Maintenance workers lead with about 810 a year, followed by landscapers at 580. Most openings come from retirements and turnover, not new job growth.

Start with a registered apprenticeship: paid on-the-job training plus classroom instruction, with wages rising as you learn. The DOL counted 2,392 active trade apprentices in West Virginia in FY2024, including 1,193 maintenance workers. Programs run three to five years; find open programs at Apprenticeship.gov.

None of the 25 tracked metros are in West Virginia, so city-level pay rankings are not published here. The statewide table above shows annual openings and apprenticeship counts for all 10 trades instead. Metro pay pages cover 18 states; West Virginia figures are statewide only.