Drywall Cost Calculator for Mississippi - Free 2026 Cost Estimates

Mississippi Drywall Labor Costs — Verified from BLS OEWS (2025)

Every figure on this page is a published U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics value. Last verified 2026-06-20.

In Mississippi, drywall & ceiling tile installers — the core trade for drywall work — earn a mean wage of $18.86/hr ($39,240 per year) in the 2025 BLS OEWS release. That is 38% below the national average (national mean $63,600 per year). Mississippi employs about 110 drywall & ceiling tile installers statewide. Related trades that price into a typical drywall job include construction laborers ($40,310/yr), first-line supervisors of construction trades ($72,400/yr). Because labor is the largest variable cost on most drywall projects, these published state wage levels are the biggest single reason drywall costs differ between Mississippi and other states. Every figure here is a mean value published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and is refreshed automatically when BLS releases new OEWS data.

Across the trades that touch a typical drywall job in Mississippi, BLS reports mean wages of drywall & ceiling tile installers at $39,240 per year ($18.86/hr); construction laborers at $40,310 per year ($19.38/hr); first-line supervisors of construction trades at $72,400 per year ($34.81/hr). The spread between first-line supervisors of construction trades ($72,400) and drywall & ceiling tile installers ($39,240) reflects differences in skill, certification, and supervisory responsibility on Mississippi job sites, and it is why a detailed, line-item estimate beats a single blended rate when you are budgeting drywall work.

Half of Mississippi drywall & ceiling tile installers earn less than the median of $37,310 per year — below the $39,240 mean, which a smaller number of higher earners pulls upward. For budgeting, the median is often the more realistic figure for routine drywall crews. BLS counts roughly 110 drywall & ceiling tile installers, 8,800 construction laborers, 7,040 first-line supervisors of construction trades employed across Mississippi, a measure of how deep the local drywall-trade labor pool is and how much competition for crews you can expect when scheduling work.

When you budget a drywall job in Mississippi, treat these BLS wage levels as the labor-rate floor: a crew's billed rate adds overhead, insurance, equipment, and margin on top of the $18.86/hr mean wage shown above. Because Mississippi's drywall & ceiling tile installers wages sit 38% below the national average, a drywall quote that comes in far below these published rates is worth a second look — labor that cheap usually signals a different scope, materials, or crew experience. Use the calculator on this page to combine these Mississippi labor rates with your project's material quantities for a complete estimate.

Wages are statewide means published by BLS and reflect labor cost only — not the total installed cost of a project. Use the calculator below for a full materials-and-labor estimate, and always obtain written bids from licensed Mississippi contractors.