Glaziers Career, Salary and Skills
Glaziers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $57,080 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 58,480. Wage data is published for 212 locations.
Occupation description
Install glass in windows, skylights, store fronts, and display cases, or on surfaces, such as building fronts, interior walls, ceilings, and tabletops.
O*NET code
47-2121.00
Job zone
2
Typical education
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
Experience
None
National salary and employment
Median annual
$57,080
Hourly median
$27.44
Employment
58,480
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Coordination | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Time Management | 3.00 | 2.75 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Speaking | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Active Listening | 2.88 | 2.75 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 2.88 | 2.75 |
| Operations Monitoring | 2.88 | 2.62 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 2.88 | 2.50 |
| Operation and Control | 2.88 | 2.88 |
Typical tasks
- Assemble, erect, or dismantle scaffolds, rigging, or hoisting equipment.
- Cut and remove broken glass prior to installing replacement glass.
- Secure mirrors in position, using mastic cement, putty, bolts, or screws.
- Measure and mark outlines or patterns on glass to indicate cutting lines.
- Grind or polish glass, smoothing edges when necessary.
- Fasten glass panes into wood sashes or frames with clips, points, or moldings, adding weather seals or putty around pane edges to seal joints.
- Score glass with cutters' wheels, breaking off excess glass by hand or with notched tools.
- Pack spaces between moldings and glass with glazing compounds and trim excess material with glazing knives.
Technology
- American Glazing Software AGS WindowPricer
- BidMaster
- D-CALC FACADE 4000
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Windows
- Work order software
Glaziers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Glaziers Salary in CAMedian $64,040 · Employment 7,020
- Glaziers Salary in FLMedian $47,030 · Employment 6,370
- Glaziers Salary in TXMedian $47,730 · Employment 5,850
- Glaziers Salary in NYMedian $61,760 · Employment 3,400
- Glaziers Salary in New York, NYMedian $69,480 · Employment 3,030
- Glaziers Salary in GAMedian $43,340 · Employment 2,530
- Glaziers Salary in AZMedian $56,560 · Employment 2,370
- Glaziers Salary in Miami, FLMedian $44,430 · Employment 2,330
- Glaziers Salary in MIMedian $52,770 · Employment 2,040
- Glaziers Salary in COMedian $62,340 · Employment 2,040
- Glaziers Salary in Phoenix, AZMedian $57,170 · Employment 2,000
- Glaziers Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $49,450 · Employment 1,980
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.