Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall salary

SOC 47-2131 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$49,120

per year, nationally

Middle half

$43,200–$60,980

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

44,440

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+3.8%

3,400 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.

$37,030$78,190

10th: $37,030
25th: $43,200
Median: $49,120
75th: $60,980
90th: $78,190

Getting in

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

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

Where insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall 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	Nebraska	$73,140	90.1	310	1.07×
2	Washington	$67,750	107.0	2,330	2.30×
3	Mississippi	$62,880	87.0	290	0.88×
4	Oregon	$60,210	103.4	700	1.25×
5	New York	$59,100	107.9	1,600	0.58×
6	Maryland	$58,420	105.0	1,240	1.57×
7	Ohio	$58,400	92.8	870	0.55×
8	Alaska	$56,470	102.4	170	1.86×
9	Missouri	$56,040	90.8	830	0.99×
10	Iowa	$55,820	87.8	460	1.03×
11	Indiana	$54,630	93.3	780	0.86×
12	Minnesota	$54,350	98.6	1,090	1.29×
13	Vermont	$53,570	98.0	110	1.29×
14	Delaware	$53,570	99.8	280	2.06×
15	Illinois	$53,000	100.0	780	0.45×
16	New Jersey	$52,750	108.8	820	0.67×
17	Kansas	$51,520	90.1	430	1.05×
18	New Hampshire	$51,320	104.2	230	1.16×
19	Colorado	$50,800	103.1	1,210	1.47×
20	Pennsylvania	$50,600	97.6	610	0.35×
21	Kentucky	$49,730	90.2	400	0.70×
22	Wisconsin	$49,520	94.1	650	0.77×
23	Massachusetts	$48,940	105.8	710	0.68×
24	California	$48,840	110.7	3,080	0.59×
25	Alabama	$48,740	88.8	660	1.09×
26	Texas	$48,740	97.1	7,120	1.77×
27	Connecticut	$48,550	103.6	300	0.61×
28	New Mexico	$48,460	92.2	250	1.01×
29	Tennessee	$48,410	91.9	1,160	1.24×
30	Montana	$48,100	94.6	490	3.36×
31	Georgia	$47,810	96.3	900	0.65×
32	Maine	$47,790	97.0	440	2.39×
33	Louisiana	$47,340	88.2	1,610	2.91×
34	Florida	$47,100	103.4	2,690	0.95×
35	South Carolina	$47,020	93.7	730	1.10×
36	Oklahoma	$46,880	87.8	570	1.17×
37	Nevada	$46,510	100.0	660	1.48×
38	Michigan	$46,490	96.2	710	0.56×
39	North Dakota	$46,450	89.0	260	2.08×
40	Wyoming	$46,200	92.7	170	2.10×
41	South Dakota	$45,820	88.6	340	2.59×
42	Virginia	$44,810	101.1	—	—
43	Arkansas	$43,730	86.9	350	0.94×
44	North Carolina	$42,990	94.3	2,090	1.48×
45	Arizona	$42,210	100.7	780	0.85×
46	Idaho	$41,550	95.5	330	1.35×
47	Utah	$40,080	98.9	300	0.60×
48	West Virginia	$35,390	89.5	70	0.33×

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 insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall

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	Omaha, NE-IA	$81,880	91.9	—	—
2	Columbus, OH	$80,000	95.5	380	1.19×
3	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$76,610	103.7	40	1.19×
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$76,170	115.6	370	0.55×
5	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$71,980	111.1	1,250	2.09×
6	Medford, OR	$71,470	101.4	50	1.77×
7	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$70,410	91.7	200	1.70×
8	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$65,930	110.5	50	0.51×
9	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$63,200	104.5	550	1.42×
10	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$62,710	102.4	90	6.14×
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$61,730	112.6	1,500	0.55×
12	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$61,690	100.3	150	2.09×
13	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$60,960	105.4	450	1.30×
14	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$60,730	100.1	280	7.55×
15	Salem, OR	$60,290	103.6	120	2.22×
16	Colorado Springs, CO	$59,440	100.7	140	1.59×
17	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$59,290	95.7	240	0.77×
18	St. Louis, MO-IL	$59,040	95.1	520	1.35×
19	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$58,890	110.4	190	0.57×
20	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$58,850	103.6	600	0.47×
21	Salisbury, MD	$58,420	95.6	50	3.38×
22	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$58,360	95.4	90	0.27×
23	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$58,240	104.8	870	1.55×
24	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$57,190	99.6	90	0.71×
25	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	$56,930	94.2	40	1.24×
26	Huntsville, AL	$56,780	93.1	60	0.84×
27	Syracuse, NY	$56,680	95.7	80	0.97×
28	Kansas City, MO-KS	$56,460	92.5	330	1.05×
29	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$56,110	93.1	190	0.95×
30	Rochester, NY	$55,960	97.0	100	0.73×
31	Anchorage, AK	$55,800	105.4	110	2.20×
32	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$54,730	100.1	580	0.70×
33	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$54,400	96.3	550	1.76×
34	Utica-Rome, NY	$51,950	92.7	50	1.52×
35	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$51,740	105.8	730	1.58×
36	Wichita, KS	$51,520	88.9	150	1.66×
37	Columbia, SC	$50,750	93.7	110	0.95×
38	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$50,320	102.6	370	0.44×
39	Billings, MT	$50,210	93.5	70	2.69×
40	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$50,120	96.9	220	0.93×

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 insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall 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

Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall earn the most

Best paying metro areas for insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall

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