Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 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 Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $46,020. 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

The occupation employed 205,230 people in May 2024, 0.13% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 29,030 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 33.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in South Dakota, whose location quotient of 3.76 says this work is 3.76 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $87,620, which is 2.3 times the $38,290 at the 10th, a difference of $49,330 annually. Because the mean wage ($59,360) sits above the median ($54,660), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers runs from the $94,950 median in Alaska down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (29,030 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers stands number 161 by employment and number 473 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 0% more than its group median, and it supplies 3.2% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 27 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $54,660, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 9,620 jobs, 4.7% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, El Paso, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $41,120 a year, against $84,340 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $4,555 a month before tax, $2,102 biweekly, $1,051 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($46,020) to the 75th ($65,840) is worth $19,820 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 $60,126 would sit between the median ($54,660) and the 75th percentile ($65,840), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $46,020, is $8,640 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

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Helpers--Carpenters, Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers, Fence Erectors, Plasterers and Stucco Masons, Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas, Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.