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What sprinkler fitters make
Journeyman
$63,800
Apprentice
$44,150
Senior or union foreman
$108,420
The federal wage survey has no separate line for sprinkler fitters. It counts them inside Plumbers, Pipefitters and Steamfitters, where the national median is $63,800 a year and the top tenth reach $108,420. Sprinkler fitters on union commercial work generally sit in the upper half of that, because almost all of the work is large buildings.