Fence Erectors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Fence Erectors worker at that point in the distribution, so $57,070 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 22,640, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 4,110 jobs; the top three states sum to 33.7% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Montana posts a location quotient of 7.01, 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: $39,570 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($74,660) is 2.1 times the 10th percentile ($35,090), a gap of $39,570 a year. The mean of $50,550 sitting above the median of $46,940 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 46 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Nebraska at $78,780; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Fence Erectors stands number 533 by employment and number 599 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 14% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 24 of the 46 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $46,940, 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 1,090 jobs, 4.8% 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, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $55,700 a year, against $64,090 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, 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

The median annual wage of $46,940 works out to $3,912 a month before taxes, $1,805 per biweekly paycheck, and $903 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,040) to the 75th ($57,070) is worth $18,030 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $51,634 would sit between the median ($46,940) and the 75th percentile ($57,070), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,040, is $7,900 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

Sibling occupations in Construction and Extraction Occupations: Electricians, Carpenters, Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Painters, Construction and Maintenance, Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.