Trade Salary Guides
Sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics release and 2024–2034 employment projections. Each guide states the exact SOC code behind its numbers and labels every figure as a median, a mean, or a benchmark proxy, never as an unqualified average.
$61,010/yr
$29.33/hr median
What Do HVAC Techs Make?
May 2025 BLS median $61,010/yr. Ranges from $48,110 to $77,430 across the states in this guide.
$63,800/yr
$30.67/hr median
How Much Do Plumbers Make?
May 2025 BLS median $63,800/yr for the combined plumber, pipefitter, and steamfitter occupation. BLS does not report plumbers alone.
$63,190/yr
$30.38/hr median
What Do Electricians Make?
May 2025 BLS median $63,190/yr, with the fastest projected 2024-2034 growth of the trades in this set.
$55,440/yr
$26.65/hr median
Roofer Pay, by the Numbers
May 2025 BLS median $55,440/yr. State medians in this guide range from $44,940 to $77,900.
$49,400/yr
$23.75/hr median
Painter Pay, by the Numbers
May 2025 BLS median $49,400/yr for construction and maintenance painters.
$50,990/yr
$24.51/hr median
Appliance Repair Tech Pay
May 2025 BLS median $50,990/yr. Below the 3.1% all-occupations growth rate, and this guide says so.
$45,250/yr
$21.75/hr median
Pest Control Technician Pay
May 2025 BLS median $45,250/yr. State medians in this guide range from $37,200 to $51,300.
$39,150/yr
$18.82/hr median
Landscaper & Groundskeeper Pay
May 2025 BLS median $39,150/yr. Supervisors and tree workers are separate BLS occupations, covered inside the guide.
$79,920–$114,990/yr
Two employee proxies, not a GC wage
What BLS Actually Measures for General Contractors
BLS has no general contractor occupation. This guide discloses two employee benchmarks — construction managers and field supervisors — and publishes no owner income figure.
$36,840–$49,590/yr
Two role proxies, not a pool-tech wage
What BLS Actually Measures for Pool Technicians
BLS has no pool-technician occupation. This guide brackets the work between two published occupations and does not invent a single average.
No published owner wage
BLS excludes business owners
Cleaning Business Owner Income: A Planning Guide
No agency measures cleaning business owner take-home pay. This guide skips the fake average and walks through revenue, costs, profit, salary, and draws instead.
What's in Each Guide
The 8 guides with a clean BLS occupation match all include the same sourced data. The general contractor and pool technician guides disclose two benchmarks instead of one figure, and the cleaning business owner guide is a different kind of page entirely — see its card above.
Median and mean pay
The exact BLS OEWS median annual and hourly wage, with the mean shown separately and never substituted for it.
State wage lookup
Select a state to see its official OEWS median, with no invented multiplier for experience or specialty.
State-by-state medians
Every state BLS publishes for the occupation, ranked by actual pay rather than a stored ranking.
2024–2034 job outlook
BLS employment projections: base and projected employment, net change, and average annual openings, each labeled separately.
Credentials, described accurately
What each license or certification actually requires and covers, with no dollar premium claimed unless BLS publishes one.
Trade comparisons
How the occupation's median and projected growth compare with adjacent trades, sourced to the same BLS release.
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