Glaziers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Glaziers worker at that point in the distribution, so $68,300 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

The occupation employed 57,000 people in May 2024, 0.04% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 7,880 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 35.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Arizona, whose location quotient of 1.77 says this work is 1.77 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $98,780, which is 2.6 times the $37,710 at the 10th, a difference of $61,070 annually. Because the mean wage ($60,260) sits above the median ($55,440), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 7,880 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Massachusetts would lead at $101,570. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Glaziers stands number 366 by employment and number 465 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% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.9% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 25 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $55,440, 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 2,760 jobs, 4.8% 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, San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $45,570 a year, against $94,610 in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. 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 Glaziers paycheck, gross, is $2,132 every two weeks on an annual $55,440, which is $4,620 a month and $1,066 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($45,530) to the 75th ($68,300) is worth $22,770 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 $60,984 would sit between the median ($55,440) and the 75th percentile ($68,300), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $45,530, is $9,910 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: Stonemasons, Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons, Helpers--Extraction Workers, Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining, Extraction Workers, All Other, Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.