Tile and Stone Setters salary

SOC 47-2044 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$55,690

per year, nationally

Middle half

$45,200–$70,220

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

35,850

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+10.1%

4,200 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.

$37,140$86,110

10th: $37,140
25th: $45,200
Median: $55,690
75th: $70,220
90th: $86,110

Getting in

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

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

Where tile and stone setters 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	Massachusetts	$81,150	105.8	410	0.49×
2	Hawaii	$79,270	110.0	440	3.05×
3	Washington	$77,920	107.0	660	0.81×
4	Maine	$70,720	97.0	60	0.41×
5	Minnesota	$70,560	98.6	610	0.89×
6	Pennsylvania	$70,230	97.6	880	0.63×
7	Illinois	$67,160	100.0	730	0.52×
8	Connecticut	$63,150	103.6	230	0.60×
9	Wisconsin	$62,680	94.1	410	0.61×
10	New Jersey	$62,370	108.8	460	0.47×
11	New York	$61,260	107.9	2,990	1.34×
12	Nevada	$61,200	100.0	1,450	4.07×
13	Missouri	$60,590	90.8	470	0.69×
14	Nebraska	$59,350	90.1	—	—
15	California	$58,880	110.7	8,250	1.96×
16	Oregon	$58,790	103.4	790	1.73×
17	Montana	$58,670	94.6	240	2.07×
18	Colorado	$57,690	103.1	870	1.32×
19	Vermont	$55,890	98.0	140	2.02×
20	Kansas	$54,920	90.1	310	0.94×
21	Iowa	$54,350	87.8	240	0.68×
22	Arizona	$52,000	100.7	1,060	1.41×
23	West Virginia	$50,900	89.5	50	0.30×
24	South Dakota	$50,640	88.6	30	0.33×
25	New Hampshire	$49,900	104.2	40	0.26×
26	Utah	$49,340	98.9	1,590	3.96×
27	Rhode Island	$49,170	102.3	—	—
28	Virginia	$48,880	101.1	750	0.79×
29	Indiana	$48,450	93.3	540	0.73×
30	Michigan	$47,950	96.2	1,010	1.00×
31	Idaho	$47,940	95.5	570	2.89×
32	Georgia	$47,840	96.3	360	0.32×
33	Kentucky	$47,380	90.2	180	0.40×
34	Florida	$47,280	103.4	4,070	1.78×
35	Texas	$47,030	97.1	1,260	0.39×
36	Ohio	$46,140	92.8	670	0.52×
37	Maryland	$45,670	105.0	240	0.37×
38	Alabama	$44,800	88.8	260	0.54×
39	Louisiana	$44,750	88.2	190	0.43×
40	North Carolina	$44,650	94.3	680	0.60×
41	New Mexico	$44,550	92.2	280	1.38×
42	Oklahoma	$44,340	87.8	280	0.70×
43	Tennessee	$43,570	91.9	350	0.47×
44	South Carolina	$43,510	93.7	—	—
45	North Dakota	$42,620	89.0	70	0.70×
46	Mississippi	$39,130	87.0	60	0.23×
47	Arkansas	$38,980	86.9	160	0.54×

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 tile and stone setters wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for tile and stone setters

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	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$88,730	105.6	30	1.58×
2	Urban Honolulu, HI	$86,850	111.0	290	2.82×
3	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$82,230	108.3	—	—
4	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$79,040	111.1	450	0.93×
5	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$74,670	103.6	550	0.53×
6	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$71,750	104.8	450	1.01×
7	Visalia, CA	$71,280	99.8	110	2.84×
8	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$70,730	102.6	390	0.59×
9	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$69,990	100.3	30	0.53×
10	Springfield, MA	$67,070	96.1	30	0.69×
11	Lancaster, PA	$66,130	98.3	50	0.94×
12	Pittsburgh, PA	$65,750	94.7	230	0.89×
13	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$65,580	106.9	60	0.65×
14	Madison, WI	$64,930	97.3	50	0.49×
15	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$64,430	115.6	1,020	1.87×
16	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$64,330	109.4	80	4.62×
17	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$64,160	96.9	120	0.62×
18	St. Louis, MO-IL	$63,640	95.1	280	0.89×
19	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$63,540	100.2	990	3.79×
20	New Haven, CT	$62,750	104.6	50	0.73×
21	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$62,580	110.4	430	1.64×
22	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$61,900	105.4	390	1.39×
23	Green Bay, WI	$61,790	93.1	40	1.10×
24	Rochester, NY	$61,710	97.0	110	1.00×
25	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$61,410	112.6	2,600	1.19×
26	Omaha, NE-IA	$61,040	91.9	—	—
27	Evansville, IN	$60,590	91.5	40	1.42×
28	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$60,490	101.6	—	—
29	Syracuse, NY	$60,290	95.7	100	1.39×
30	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	$60,010	94.8	30	1.24×
31	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$59,770	109.9	50	2.08×
32	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$59,700	109.4	80	1.32×
33	Bozeman, MT	$59,230	102.5	80	4.67×
34	Salem, OR	$58,970	103.6	100	2.32×
35	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$58,970	105.1	180	2.65×
36	Worcester, MA	$58,930	102.5	50	0.59×
37	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$58,680	108.8	160	3.55×
38	Grand Junction, CO	$58,680	95.5	40	2.53×
39	Reno, NV	$58,650	101.0	360	5.73×
40	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$58,600	113.6	2,170	1.50×

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 tile and stone setters 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