America’s Plumber Deficit Isn’t Good for the Economy

Student Jean Bosco Nshimiyimana in a plumbing class at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, on Feb. 16.

2024-03-14    

The decor is meant to reinforce the school’s pitch to trainees: that this is a time-tested profession with solid job prospects. Openings for plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters will average about 42,600 each year over the coming decade, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the money isn’t bad, either. The mean annual wage for plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters as of May 2022 was $65,190, the BLS says, which is higher than the national average of $61,900 for all occupations.

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