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What gas work pays
Licensed
$63,800
Apprentice
$44,150
Senior, union or utility
$108,420
The national median is $63,800 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $44,150. The federal wage survey has no separate gasfitter category: it counts plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters as one group, and gas work sits inside that. Gas utility technicians are counted elsewhere and tend to be paid better than the group median.