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Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters — Career Decision Dashboard

United States

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Median annual wage

$47,550

United States, 2025

Employment

14,170

United States, 2025

Typical education

High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)

Job Zone 2

Skills identified

35

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Career overview

Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

O*NET code
47-3011.00
Job zone
2
Experience required
None

Typical tasks

  • Mix mortar, plaster, and grout, manually or using machines, according to standard formulas.
  • Cut materials to specified sizes for installation, using power saws or tile cutters.
  • Erect scaffolding or other installation structures.
  • Locate and supply materials to masons for installation, following drawings or numbered sequences.
  • Clean installation surfaces, equipment, tools, work sites, or storage areas, using water, chemical solutions, oxygen lances, or polishing machines.
  • Apply grout between joints of bricks or tiles, using grouting trowels.
  • Modify material moving, mixing, grouting, grinding, polishing, or cleaning procedures, according to installation or material requirements.
  • Remove damaged tile, brick, or mortar, and clean or prepare surfaces, using pliers, hammers, chisels, drills, wire brushes, or metal wire anchors.

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Salary analysis — United States

$36,230
10th
$40,100
25th
$47,550
Median
$57,980
75th
$70,080
90th

10th percentile

$36,230

25th percentile

$40,100

75th percentile

$57,980

90th percentile

$70,080

Most important skills

  • Coordination3.0
  • Critical Thinking3.0
  • Time Management3.0
  • Monitoring3.0
  • Operation and Control3.0
  • Judgment and Decision Making2.9
  • Active Listening2.9
  • Troubleshooting2.8
  • Social Perceptiveness2.8
  • Speaking2.8
  • Operations Monitoring2.8
  • Complex Problem Solving2.6

What skills do you need?

Select the skills you already have

Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.

Skill coverage

0%

0 of 5 identified skills

Matched

0

Missing

5

Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.

Skills to develop

SkillImportanceRequired levelYour levelGap
Coordination3.03.1Not selected3.1
Monitoring3.02.6Not selected2.6
Time Management3.02.5Not selected2.5
Critical Thinking3.02.4Not selected2.4
Operation and Control3.02.4Not selected2.4

Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.

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How salary varies by location

LocationMedianEmploymentYear
Seattle, WA$77,990702025
WA$76,1801502025
New York, NY$70,0806902025
Boston, MA$65,8701902025
St. Louis, MO$64,4001502025
MO$63,7202402025
NY$62,0208902025
Portland, OR$61,4201502025
Urban Honolulu, HI$61,020302025
HI$61,020502025
MA$61,0204102025
WI$59,3901402025
IA$59,220602025
CT$59,0804302025
San Francisco, CA$59,0003402025
PA$58,930902025
New Haven, CT$58,580302025
Philadelphia, PA$57,9801102025
OH$57,4105002025
Cincinnati, OH$57,4101002025
All locations with published data

Career transition paths

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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0.

Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).

Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.