Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Plasterers and Stucco Masons offer sit among all 20,880 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

With 20,880 jobs nationally, Plasterers and Stucco Masons make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 8,370 of those jobs, the top three states hold 58.0%, and the deepest concentration sits in Nevada (location quotient 5.93, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $92,930, which is 2.4 times the $38,610 at the 10th, a difference of $54,320 annually. Because the mean wage ($61,000) sits above the median ($56,020), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Hawaii posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $99,070, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Plasterers and Stucco Masons stands number 552 by employment and number 461 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 2% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 15 of the 32 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $56,020, 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 2,310 jobs, 11.1% 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, Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $55,860 a year, against $89,650 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

As a household number, $56,020 a year is $4,668 a month gross, $2,155 every two weeks, $1,077 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($46,990) to the 75th ($72,210) is worth $25,220 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 $4,668 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 $61,622 would sit between the median ($56,020) and the 75th percentile ($72,210), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $46,990, is $9,030 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

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