Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles 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 Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $44,760. 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 24,850 jobs nationally, Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles make up 0.02% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 6,360 of those jobs, the top three states hold 37.3%, and the deepest concentration sits in Hawaii (location quotient 3.01, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $59,990 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($97,180) is 2.6 times the 10th percentile ($37,190), a gap of $59,990 a year. The mean of $60,550 sitting above the median of $54,340 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Alaska posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $100,500, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles stands number 513 by employment and number 475 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 1% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 14 of the 45 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $54,340, 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 2,120 jobs, 8.5% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 78 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, St. Louis, MO-IL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $64,710 a year, against $83,890 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. 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

The median annual wage of $54,340 works out to $4,528 a month before taxes, $2,090 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,045 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($44,760) to the 75th ($72,390) is worth $27,630 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 $59,774 would sit between the median ($54,340) and the 75th percentile ($72,390), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $44,760, is $9,580 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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