Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

Apply blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative coverings to floors.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical tasks

• Cut covering and foundation materials, according to blueprints and sketches.
• Trim excess covering materials, tack edges, and join sections of covering material to form tight joint.
• Cut flooring material to fit around obstructions.
• Roll and press sheet wall and floor covering into cement base to smooth and finish surface, using hand roller.
• Lay out, position, and apply shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative coverings to floors, walls, and cabinets, following guidelines to keep courses straight and create designs.
• Sweep, scrape, sand, or chip dirt and irregularities to clean base surfaces, correcting imperfections that may show through the covering.
• Measure and mark guidelines on surfaces or foundations, using chalk lines and dividers.
• Inspect surface to be covered to ensure that it is firm and dry.

Technology

• Aya Associates Comp-U-Floor
• CPR Software FloorCOST Estimator for Excel
• Facebook
• Flooring Technologies QFloors
• Focus Floor Covering Software
• Measure Square FloorEstimate Pro
• Microsoft Office software
• On Center On-Screen Takeoff
• Pacific Solutions FloorRight
• Project visualization software
• Radio frequency identification RFID software
• Textile Management Systems RollMaster
• Web browser software

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

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in CA
  Median $61,210 · Employment 4,330
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in FL
  Median $57,020 · Employment 1,660
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in TX
  Median $43,070 · Employment 1,480
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in Los Angeles, CA
  Median $59,090 · Employment 1,350
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in IL
  Median $69,880 · Employment 1,330
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in New York, NY
  Median $61,360 · Employment 1,180
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in MA
  Median $79,280 · Employment 1,060
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in Chicago, IL
  Median $70,370 · Employment 1,010
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in NY
  Median $61,360 · Employment 880
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in OH
  Median $59,470 · Employment 850
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in Boston, MA
  Median $98,290 · Employment 740
• Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles Salary in IN
  Median $50,720 · Employment 730

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