Alta Forest Products LLC.
Industrial Maintenance Millwright
Chehalis, Washington · SOC 49-9044
As published · retrieved 2026-08-26
What the record says
- Tuition
- $0
- Year-one pay
- $30.20/hr
- Journey rate
- $35.01/hr
- Term
- 8,000 hours
You are an employee, not a student. They pay you.
First step on the registered wage scale.
Paid once you turn out, not during the term.
Plus 689 hours of classroom instruction.
Our estimate · 2,000 hours a year
Four years from now
Our estimate, calculated by TradeFooting from this program's published first-step wage, journey rate and registered term. The registry publishes those three facts. The projection below is ours, and the workings are shown.
| Year | Average rate | Gross pay |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $30.20/hr | $60,400 |
| Year 2 | $30.20/hr | $60,400 |
| Year 3 | $30.20/hr | $60,400 |
| Year 4 | $30.20/hr | $60,400 |
| Total earned | $241,600 | |
| Tuition paid | $0 | |
| Debt | $0 | |
How this is worked out
- Assumes 2,000 paid hours a year. No overtime.
- The registered first step here already sits at or above the 85% of the journey scale this model treats as the last step of the term, so pay is held flat at the first step for all four years. Real pay would rise. The figure is a floor.
- Gross pay before tax. Tools, dues and exam fees are not deducted.
- The registry publishes the first-step rate and the journey rate. It does not publish the steps in between, so those are modeled here, not sourced.
The occupation, not this program
What millwrights earn in Washington
$76,490median, per year
Half earn more, half less, across all experience levels. National median $65,700.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · SOC 49-9044 · survey 2025-05 · retrieved 2026-08-26
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