Brickmasons and Blockmasons Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Brickmasons and Blockmasons ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $49,430. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

With 53,520 jobs nationally, Brickmasons and Blockmasons make up 0.03% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 4,440 of those jobs, the top three states hold 21.6%, and the deepest concentration sits in Utah (location quotient 3.05, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $49,430 at the 25th percentile, $60,800 at the middle, $77,290 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $54,230, a ratio of 2.3 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 4,440 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Massachusetts would lead at $94,370. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Brickmasons and Blockmasons stands number 376 by employment and number 396 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Construction and Extraction Occupations, the group median wage is $54,660 across 60 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 11% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.8% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 26 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $60,800, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN is the largest metro employer with 2,480 jobs, 4.6% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 156 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $50,970 a year, against $97,870 in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $5,067 a month before tax, $2,338 biweekly, $1,169 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($49,430) to the 75th ($77,290) is worth $27,860 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $66,880 would sit between the median ($60,800) and the 75th percentile ($77,290), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $49,430, is $11,370 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Construction and Extraction Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Carpenters, Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Painters, Construction and Maintenance, Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers, Highway Maintenance Workers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.