Trade Salary Calculator
See what you could earn in a skilled trade — by trade, country, region, experience level, and specialty. Built on official 2024 wage data.
This free calculator estimates skilled-trade pay by combining a country's baseline wage with transparent regional, experience and specialty multipliers. Pick your trade, country, state, experience level and any regulated certifications to get a realistic annual range — from apprentice to master/owner — sourced from official 2024 labour statistics.
Salary calculator
Estimate what you'd earn with your specific trade, region, experience level, and any regulated specialty certs.
Estimated pay
$65,000–$106,500/ year
Country base × region 1.25 × experience 1.00 × specialty 1.00 = total 1.25× the country journeyman range.
Estimate only. Real pay depends on employer, hours, and local market. Multipliers calibrated from BLS / GUS / CBS / INE 2024 — see methodology on the salary comparison page.
Four multipliers, one realistic range
The estimate is country baseline × state multiplier × experience multiplier × specialty multiplier. The baseline comes from national wage statistics; the state multiplier reflects regional cost and demand; experience scales from apprentice (40–60%) through journeyman (100%) to master/owner (130–160%); and regulated specialties — solar PV, smart-home, F-gas — add a documented premium. Every multiplier and its source is published, so the number is auditable rather than a black box.
How much do skilled tradespeople actually make?
A journeyman in the skilled trades typically earns the country baseline shown in the calculator — for example, a US electrician sits in the $60,000–$100,000 range at journeyman level. Apprentices start around 40–60% of that, while master tradespeople and business owners commonly exceed the upper bound by 30–60%. Region, experience, and regulated specialties move the number the most.
Which trades and countries does the calculator cover?
It covers 16 skilled trades — including electrician, plumber, HVAC technician, carpenter and roofer — across four markets: the United States, Poland, the Netherlands and Spain. For the US, you can also adjust by state.
How accurate are these salary estimates?
Estimates are grounded in official 2024 wage data — the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Poland's GUS, the Netherlands' CBS and Spain's INE — then adjusted by transparent regional, experience and specialty multipliers. They are planning ranges, not quotes: actual pay depends on your employer, union status, overtime and local cost of living. Last reviewed May 2026.
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Occupational Outlook Handbook 2024), GUS, CBS, INE 2024. Multipliers documented in our salary methodology. Last reviewed May 2026 · HireLocal Editorial.