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What ironworkers make
Journeyman
$58,970
First-year apprentice
$43,310
Foreman or heavy travel work
$104,540
The national median is $58,970 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $43,310. These figures are for reinforcing iron and rebar workers, the branch that ties the steel inside concrete. Structural ironworkers, who raise the steel frames of buildings and bridges, are counted under a separate occupation code.