Sprinkler Fitter Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

FireProtectionHires had 545 open sprinkler fitter listings from 40 employers on November 5, 2026.

57 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 206 in the previous 30 days.

The benefit sprinkler fitter listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was paid time off, in 65.3% of listings, followed by 401(k) plan (62.4%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all sprinkler fitter listings.

BLS publishes no sprinkler fitter-only wage, so the figure here is for plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (SOC 47-2152), the closest available BLS occupation (no sprinkler-fitter-only data).

The median wage for that occupation was $63,800 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters (SOC 47-2152), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $50,190 to $85,110 a year.

Employers hiring sprinkler fitters on FireProtectionHires advertise a median of $33.50 an hour across 13 employers on November 5, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Texas had the most open sprinkler fitter listings on November 5, 2026, with 77 (14.1% of the national total).

Florida followed with 66 (12.1%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with sprinkler fitter openings in Texas.

40 employers had open sprinkler fitter listings on FireProtectionHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 59.8% of them.

9 employers (22.5%) had exactly one open sprinkler fitter listing.

BLS publishes no sprinkler-fitter-only figures; O*NET lists Sprinkler Fitter among the reported job titles of plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (SOC 47-2152), the closest available occupation.

Employers reported 465,840 plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters on payroll in May 2025, a count that covers all pipe trades, not sprinkler fitters alone (BLS OEWS, SOC 47-2152).

BLS does not project sprinkler fitters separately; for plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (SOC 47-2152) it projects 6.8% employment growth from 2025 to 2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, and about 42,000 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025–35).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid sprinkler fitter listing on FireProtectionHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all sprinkler fitter jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS counts sprinkler fitters inside plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (SOC 47-2152), the closest available occupation; it publishes no sprinkler-fitter-only data. OEWS covers payroll employees only.