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What sheet metal workers make
Journeyman
$61,800
First-year apprentice
$38,630
Foreman or big-city local
$105,650
The national median is $61,800 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $38,630. The federal wage survey counts shop fabricators and site installers together under one occupation, so both ends of that range are real jobs in the same trade.