Construction Laborers salary in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

The figures

The median Construction Laborers in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area earns $54,240 a year ($26.08 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Construction Laborers in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn between $44,620 and $65,830 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $38,990 or less and the top 10 percent earn $82,700 or more. BLS estimates 7,950 Construction Laborers jobs in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area — 6.577 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.93 (below the national concentration). That is 0.7% of all Construction Laborers employment in the United States (1,096,780 jobs nationally). By employment, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA is the #25 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Construction Laborers. In aggregate, Construction Laborers in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn about $0.46 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $45,020.98 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Construction Laborers is about $0.36 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 5.9% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA stands #13 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Construction Laborers. By employment, Construction Laborers is the #27 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Placed against the national distribution for Construction Laborers, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $54,240 falls between the national median ($47,120) and the national 75th percentile ($59,740). Across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median is $60,690 a year — Construction Laborers pay is 10.6% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Construction Laborers in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn 2.1 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($82,700 against $38,990). The middle half spans $21,210 — from $44,620 to $65,830. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($39.76) is 2.12 times the 10th ($18.75). In the upper half of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $65,830 takes home $50,651.46 and the 90th percentile wage of $82,700 takes home $61,375.58 — $10,724.12 more net for $16,870 more gross. Against the median take-home of $42,231.38, the top decile keeps 1.45 times as much. The mean wage of $58,080 sits 7.1% above the median: higher-paid Construction Laborers pull the average up in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Among the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA, Construction Laborers ranks #16 by median pay. In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage ladder of covered occupations, Construction Laborers sits between Waiters and Waitresses at $54,780 and Office Clerks, General at $50,640. Construction Laborers accounts for 0.7% of all employment in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. The average covered metro employs 17,175 Construction Laborers; Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA employs 0.5 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Oregon

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Oregon; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $42,231.38 of the $54,240 gross is kept ($1,624.28 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 22.14%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 20.10% at the 10th percentile, 21.02% at the 25th percentile, 23.06% at the 75th percentile, 25.79% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $15,408.88 on a gross rise of $21,210.

The same engine at the other published points of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $31,152.04 a year at the 10th percentile to $61,375.58 at the 90th — a spread of $30,223.54 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median wage of $60,690 takes home $46,917.28 a year ($1,804.51 per paycheck, deduction rate 22.69%). The Construction Laborers median take-home of $42,231.38 sits $4,685.90 (below that area-wide figure.

Multi-state metro area. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA also covers parts of Washington. The take-home estimate above uses Oregon rules — the metro area's primary state. If the job is based in another part of the metro area, the state tax changes: see the Washington paycheck calculator.

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Take-home pay for $54,240 in Oregon

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Construction Laborers earns $47,120 a year ($22.66 an hour). The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $54,240 is $7,120 (15.1%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $58,080 a year in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA against $52,030 nationally, a gap of $6,050 (11.6%).

Set against the whole local market, the Construction Laborers 90th percentile of $82,700 is 60% of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA all-occupations 90th percentile ($136,920), and its 10th percentile of $38,990 is 105% of the area-wide 10th ($37,200).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.