Carpet Installers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Carpet Installers worker at that point in the distribution, so $65,530 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 14,980, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 2,600 jobs; the top three states sum to 30.3% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Nevada posts a location quotient of 6.28, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $50,370 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($83,200) is 2.5 times the 10th percentile ($32,830), a gap of $50,370 a year. The mean of $55,860 sitting above the median of $49,850 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 2,600 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, New Jersey would lead at $107,850. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Carpet Installers stands number 608 by employment and number 523 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 9% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 16 of the 47 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $49,850, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 800 jobs, 5.3% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $53,610 a year, against $78,490 in Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Carpet Installers paycheck, gross, is $1,917 every two weeks on an annual $49,850, which is $4,154 a month and $959 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,140) to the 75th ($65,530) is worth $26,390 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $54,835 would sit between the median ($49,850) and the 75th percentile ($65,530), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,140, is $10,710 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: Helpers, Construction Trades, All Other, Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles, Helpers--Carpenters, Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers, Fence Erectors, Plasterers and Stucco Masons. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.