Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators 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 Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $39,230. 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 18,520 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. Florida is the largest employer at 3,730 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 35.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Maine, whose location quotient of 4.96 says this work is 4.96 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $39,230 at the 25th percentile, $45,760 at the middle, $51,530 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $25,420, a ratio of 1.7 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

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 39 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Connecticut at $81,120; the jobs leader is Florida:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators stands number 577 by employment and number 627 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Production Occupations, the group median wage is $46,020 across 105 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 1% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 16 of the 38 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $45,760, 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

Elkhart-Goshen, IN is the largest metro employer with 980 jobs, 5.3% 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, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $44,070 a year, against $61,950 in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. 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

As a household number, $45,760 a year is $3,813 a month gross, $1,760 every two weeks, $880 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,230) to the 75th ($51,530) is worth $12,300 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,813 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $50,336 would sit between the median ($45,760) and the 75th percentile ($51,530), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,230, is $6,530 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Production Occupations

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