Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles salary

SOC 47-2042 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$56,460

per year, nationally

Middle half

$45,660–$73,840

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

23,640

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+9.5%

2,700 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$37,600$96,700

10th: $37,600
25th: $45,660
Median: $56,460
75th: $73,840
90th: $96,700

Getting in

Typical education to enter: No formal educational credential
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Alaska	$92,860	102.4	70	1.46×
2	Massachusetts	$79,280	105.8	1,060	1.91×
3	Hawaii	$77,280	110.0	210	2.24×
4	Illinois	$69,880	100.0	1,330	1.44×
5	New York	$61,360	107.9	880	0.60×
6	California	$61,210	110.7	4,330	1.56×
7	Pennsylvania	$60,050	97.6	720	0.78×
8	New Jersey	$59,840	108.8	700	1.08×
9	Ohio	$59,470	92.8	850	1.01×
10	Minnesota	$59,380	98.6	490	1.10×
11	South Dakota	$58,930	88.6	180	2.56×
12	Nevada	$58,540	100.0	560	2.38×
13	Florida	$57,020	103.4	1,660	1.10×
14	Washington	$56,800	107.0	370	0.69×
15	Oregon	$56,460	103.4	300	1.01×
16	Iowa	$54,960	87.8	160	0.70×
17	Missouri	$54,710	90.8	590	1.32×
18	Maine	$53,390	97.0	120	1.21×
19	Wisconsin	$52,860	94.1	700	1.55×
20	North Carolina	$51,700	94.3	490	0.65×
21	Vermont	$51,200	98.0	60	1.24×
22	Indiana	$50,720	93.3	730	1.50×
23	Virginia	$50,440	101.1	270	0.43×
24	Kentucky	$50,380	90.2	390	1.28×
25	Tennessee	$49,900	91.9	200	0.41×
26	South Carolina	$49,860	93.7	170	0.48×
27	New Mexico	$49,790	92.2	200	1.48×
28	Mississippi	$49,240	87.0	100	0.56×
29	North Dakota	$48,050	89.0	90	1.37×
30	Utah	$47,900	98.9	550	2.08×
31	Maryland	$47,880	105.0	450	1.08×
32	Connecticut	$47,210	103.6	110	0.44×
33	Michigan	$46,800	96.2	670	1.00×
34	Georgia	$46,030	96.3	330	0.44×
35	Colorado	$46,020	103.1	240	0.56×
36	Kansas	$45,970	90.1	180	0.83×
37	West Virginia	$45,390	89.5	30	0.28×
38	Arizona	$44,740	100.7	610	1.24×
39	Texas	$43,070	97.1	1,480	0.69×
40	Louisiana	$42,260	88.2	70	0.23×
41	Arkansas	$40,750	86.9	210	1.06×
42	Alabama	$38,730	88.8	150	0.47×
43	Oklahoma	$38,030	87.8	140	0.55×
44	Montana	$37,710	94.6	50	0.62×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$105,280	110.4	340	2.00×
2	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$98,290	108.3	740	1.80×
3	Anchorage, AK	$92,860	105.4	60	2.14×
4	Pittsburgh, PA	$80,970	94.7	170	1.03×
5	Urban Honolulu, HI	$77,280	111.0	150	2.26×
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$74,970	115.6	600	1.66×
7	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$73,280	102.6	350	0.80×
8	Springfield, MA	$72,850	96.1	40	1.45×
9	Toledo, OH	$72,850	91.5	160	3.62×
10	St. Louis, MO-IL	$71,730	95.1	410	1.99×
11	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$70,370	103.6	1,010	1.47×
12	Worcester, MA	$70,340	102.5	130	2.39×
13	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$69,610	105.1	120	2.78×
14	Columbus, OH	$65,560	95.5	170	1.03×
15	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$63,970	106.7	310	1.91×
16	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$63,200	91.7	50	0.81×
17	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$63,170	104.8	420	1.40×
18	Reno, NV	$62,800	101.0	150	3.60×
19	Naples-Marco Island, FL	$62,570	103.2	70	2.48×
20	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$61,360	112.6	1,180	0.82×
21	Green Bay, WI	$60,470	93.1	100	3.78×
22	Cedar Rapids, IA	$59,990	89.0	30	1.44×
23	Sioux Falls, SD-MN	$59,500	90.6	90	3.35×
24	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$59,410	95.7	240	1.45×
25	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$59,220	105.4	180	0.98×
26	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$59,090	113.6	1,350	1.41×
27	Cleveland, OH	$58,950	93.9	210	1.35×
28	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$57,800	95.4	180	1.08×
29	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$57,720	99.6	60	0.82×
30	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$57,590	111.1	210	0.67×
31	Salem, OR	$57,140	103.6	50	1.60×
32	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$57,020	100.9	—	—
33	Jacksonville, FL	$56,950	99.5	200	1.71×
34	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$56,150	111.9	450	1.91×
35	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$56,130	106.4	440	1.67×
36	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$56,040	97.3	—	—
37	Vallejo, CA	$56,020	108.5	40	1.98×
38	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$55,720	96.3	80	0.45×
39	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$55,690	100.9	50	0.96×
40	Albuquerque, NM	$54,720	95.5	140	2.26×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Construction Laborers$47,120
Electricians$63,190
Carpenters$60,580
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$59,850
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters$63,800
Painters, Construction and Maintenance$49,400
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$57,020
Roofers$55,440

Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles earn the most

Best paying metro areas for floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles

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