Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers worker at that point in the distribution, so $74,190 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

BLS counted 14,140 Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Nevada, where the location quotient is 3.32, meaning the occupation holds 3.32 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 3,530 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 43.8% of the national total.

One in ten workers in this field earns $39,470 or less, and one in ten earns $95,530 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.4 to 1 and the annual gap is $56,060. The mean ($62,640) versus median ($59,280) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers runs from the $106,340 median in Washington down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (3,530 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers stands number 627 by employment and number 422 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 8% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 22 of the 34 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $59,280, 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

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is the largest metro employer with 1,330 jobs, 9.4% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $48,860 a year, against $84,460 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $59,280 works out to $4,940 a month before taxes, $2,280 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,140 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($47,300) to the 75th ($74,190) is worth $26,890 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 $65,208 would sit between the median ($59,280) and the 75th percentile ($74,190), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $47,300, is $11,980 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

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Tile and Stone Setters, Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall, Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining, Pipelayers, Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.