Wisconsin Salary Calculator 2026

Name: Wisconsin trade wage benchmarks (BLS OEWS May 2025 release)
Creator: GlobalCybers
License: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/

Convert hourly ↔ annual salary and benchmark your pay against Wisconsin-adjusted BLS medians for 20+ trade roles. Wisconsin is pre-selected; includes overtime.

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Hourly ↔ Annual Reference Table

Hourly Rate	Annual (2,080 hrs)	Monthly	Weekly
$15.00/hr	$31,200	$2,600	$600
$20.00/hr	$41,600	$3,467	$800
$25.00/hr	$52,000	$4,333	$1,000
$30.00/hr	$62,400	$5,200	$1,200
$35.00/hr	$72,800	$6,067	$1,400
$40.00/hr	$83,200	$6,933	$1,600
$45.00/hr	$93,600	$7,800	$1,800
$50.00/hr	$104,000	$8,667	$2,000
$60.00/hr	$124,800	$10,400	$2,400
$75.00/hr	$156,000	$13,000	$3,000
$100.00/hr	$208,000	$17,333	$4,000
$125.00/hr	$260,000	$21,667	$5,000

Salary Calculator FAQ

How do you convert hourly rate to annual salary?

Multiply your hourly rate by 2,080 (40 hours × 52 weeks) for a standard full-time annual salary. Example: $30/hr × 2,080 = $62,400/yr. For overtime weeks, use: (40 hrs × rate) + (OT hrs × rate × 1.5) × number of weeks.

How many working hours are in a year?

Standard full-time: 2,080 hours (40 × 52). Minus 10 federal holidays (80 hrs): 2,000 paid hours. Minus 2 weeks vacation (80 hrs): 1,920 hours actually worked. BLS uses 2,080 for hourly-to-annual conversions. Turnaround and shutdown workers can exceed 3,000 hours/yr with heavy overtime.

What is time-and-a-half overtime?

Under the FLSA, non-exempt employees must receive 1.5× their regular rate for all hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. Example: $30/hr base · regular week = $1,200 (40 hrs) · one 10-hr OT week = $1,200 + ($30 × 1.5 × 10) = $1,200 + $450 = $1,650. Double time (2×) is not federally required but common in petrochemical and union contracts.

Wisconsin Salaries

How Wisconsin salaries compare to the national market

Wisconsin trade wages run about 3% below the national median (BLS OEWS May 2025), and this calculator applies a 0.97 Wisconsin wage index to national medians. One of the country's most manufacturing-heavy economies keeps industrial trades steadily employed, Milwaukee's machinery and tooling base, Madison's healthcare and biotech construction, and the Microsoft data-center campus at Mount Pleasant all pay above the state figure. Wisconsin taxes wages on a progressive schedule from 3.5% to 7.65%, though most trade salaries land in the middle brackets, and no city adds a wage tax.

Simplified outline of Wisconsin — a stylised shape, not to scale.

0.97× national BLS median

Wisconsin wage index

~3% below on paper

Gross vs national

Progressive 3.5%-7.65%

State income tax

Wisconsin trade salaries at a glance (2026 BLS)

Wisconsin-adjusted BLS OEWS medians for common skilled trades (national median localised with the 0.97 Wisconsin wage index). Enter your own pay in the calculator above to benchmark against any role.

Trade	Wisconsin median / yr	National median	Wisconsin / hr
Electrician	$61,290	$63,190	$29.47
Plumber	$61,890	$63,800	$29.75
HVAC Technician	$59,180	$61,010	$28.45
Pipefitter	$61,890	$63,800	$29.75
Ironworker	$60,900	$62,780	$29.28
Carpenter	$58,760	$60,580	$28.25

Trade pay by Wisconsin metro

Local BLS medians vs the Wisconsin state average.

Metro	Median	vs state
Milwaukee-Waukesha	$64,350	1.05× state
Madison	$63,130	1.03× state
Green Bay	$57,610	0.94× state
Appleton-Oshkosh	$57,000	0.93× state

Is Wisconsin a good state for industrial trades?

One of the best per capita. Wisconsin has among the highest manufacturing employment shares in the country, machinery in Milwaukee, paper in the Fox Valley, food processing statewide, so maintenance electricians, millwrights and machinists find dense demand. The Microsoft data-center build-out at Mount Pleasant has added a construction megaproject to that industrial base.

What Wisconsin tax bracket does a trade salary fall in?

Usually the middle of the schedule. Wisconsin's four brackets run 3.5%, 4.4%, 5.3% and 7.65%, and the 5.3% bracket covers single income from roughly $30,000 to $300,000, so most journeyman salaries pay a 5.3% marginal rate with a lower effective rate overall. No Wisconsin municipality withholds a local wage tax.

How accurate is the Wisconsin benchmark in this calculator?

The calculator applies a Wisconsin wage index (0.97×) to national BLS OEWS medians, a reference estimate, not a quote. Milwaukee-area union scale runs above the state figure while the northern and western rural counties run below it. For exact BLS state and metro medians with percentiles, use the Wisconsin salary guide.

What is the median trade salary in Wisconsin?

It varies by role: the Wisconsin electrician median is about $61,290, plumbers $61,890, HVAC technicians $59,180, and pipefitters $61,890 (BLS OEWS May 2025, Wisconsin-adjusted). Enter your own pay in the calculator to see your percentile against any role.

How is the Wisconsin wage index applied?

National BLS OEWS medians are multiplied by a 0.97 Wisconsin factor to localise them, reflecting that Wisconsin gross pay runs about 3% below the national average. Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year. It is a reference estimate, not an employer offer.

Which Wisconsin metros pay trades the most?

Milwaukee-Waukesha leads at about 5% above the state median on industrial, hospital and data-center work, with Madison close behind on healthcare, university and biotech construction. Green Bay and the Appleton-Oshkosh Fox Valley track 6-7% below the state figure on paper-industry and food-processing maintenance.

Do Wisconsin trade wages include overtime?

The benchmark medians are base pay. Wisconsin follows the federal FLSA standard of 1.5x after 40 hours a week, and plant maintenance shutdowns and the Mount Pleasant schedule generate steady overtime. This calculator lets you add overtime hours at 1.5x (or 2x) to model total annual pay.

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Sources & methodology

Salary figures are U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS (May 2025) national medians localised with a 0.97 Wisconsin wage index; hourly rates assume 2,080 paid hours a year. Primary sources: BLS OEWS · Wisconsin Department of Revenue · Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. Reviewed 2026-07-21 by the GlobalCybers Data Desk · reference estimates, not an offer of pay. Full methodology →

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