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Plumbing contractors in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI

The Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro area has 254 plumbing contractors, or 1.63 per 10,000 residents.

What plumbing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national plumbing page. Wisconsin publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing, so this page shows no licensed share; the Wisconsin page says what it does publish.

The facts

Plumbing contractors in this metro
254
Per 10,000 residents
1.63 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Wisconsin. No plumbing record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
2,760 employed, $84,700 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters. Median hourly wage $40.72. SOC 47-2152 pools plumbers with pipefitters and steamfitters, so this employment figure and this wage cover all three occupations together and are not a plumbing-only measure.
Independent, franchise, corporate
252 independent, 2 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,560,424, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2152.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about plumbing in Milwaukee-Waukesha

By record count, plumbing is the seventh largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Milwaukee-Waukesha, behind roofing and ahead of electrical. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Milwaukee-Waukesha.

Per resident, Milwaukee-Waukesha carries fewer plumbing records than Wisconsin as a whole.

The independent share of Milwaukee-Waukesha's plumbing records is close to the Wisconsin figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Wisconsin publishes no business-level licence source for plumbing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Milwaukee-Waukesha is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no plumbing record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for plumbing in Milwaukee-Waukesha, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 2,760 workers across Milwaukee-Waukesha, and this site publishes 254 plumbing records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.

Of the Milwaukee-Waukesha plumbing records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Milwaukee-Waukesha plumbing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

Plumbing records first appearing in Milwaukee-Waukesha and records flagged closed were close to level over the last twelve months, so the file for this trade and metro held its size.

No city inside Milwaukee-Waukesha differs from the metro enough on plumbing to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 4 Wisconsin metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for, Milwaukee-Waukesha carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a plumbing page for rather than every metro area in Wisconsin.

Ordered by plumbing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a plumbing page for, the hubs either side of Milwaukee-Waukesha are Tallahassee above it and Louisville/Jefferson County below it.

Plumbing contractors, A to Z

253 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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