Stonemasons Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Stonemasons offer sit among all 8,750 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

BLS counted 8,750 Stonemasons jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Maryland, where the location quotient is 7.89, meaning the occupation holds 7.89 times its national share of local jobs. Maryland employs the most people outright, 1,230 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 32.7% of the national total.

One in ten workers in this field earns $37,420 or less, and one in ten earns $83,200 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.2 to 1 and the annual gap is $45,780. The mean ($57,220) versus median ($51,990) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Maryland first at 1,230 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Washington would lead at $93,320. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Stonemasons stands number 702 by employment and number 494 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 5% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 21 of the 35 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $51,990, 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

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 1,060 jobs, 12.1% 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, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $48,470 a year, against $69,610 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

As a household number, $51,990 a year is $4,332 a month gross, $2,000 every two weeks, $1,000 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($44,820) to the 75th ($64,120) is worth $19,300 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 $4,332 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 $57,189 would sit between the median ($51,990) and the 75th percentile ($64,120), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $44,820, is $7,170 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: Electricians, Carpenters, Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Painters, Construction and Maintenance, Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.