Plasterers and Stucco Masons Career, Salary and Skills
Plasterers and Stucco Masons have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $57,660 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 19,310. Wage data is published for 89 locations.
Occupation description
Apply interior or exterior plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials. May also set ornamental plaster.
O*NET code
47-2161.00
Job zone
2
Typical education
Less than a High School Diploma
Experience
None
National salary and employment
Median annual
$57,660
Hourly median
$27.72
Employment
19,310
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
$39,560
10th
$47,970
25th
$57,660
Median
$71,310
75th
$96,710
90th
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Control Analysis | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Time Management | 3.00 | 2.75 |
| Active Listening | 3.00 | 2.25 |
| Monitoring | 2.88 | 2.62 |
| Speaking | 2.88 | 2.12 |
| Service Orientation | 2.88 | 2.25 |
| Operations Monitoring | 2.88 | 2.50 |
| Coordination | 2.88 | 2.75 |
| Critical Thinking | 2.75 | 2.62 |
| Reading Comprehension | 2.75 | 2.25 |
Typical tasks
- Cover surfaces such as windows, doors, or sidewalks to protect from splashing.
- Apply coats of plaster or stucco to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings, using trowels, brushes, or spray guns.
- Clean and prepare surfaces for applications of plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials, such as by drywall taping.
- Create decorative textures in finish coat, using brushes or trowels, sand, pebbles, or stones.
- Mix mortar and plaster to desired consistency or direct workers who perform mixing.
- Clean job sites.
- Rough the undercoat surface with a scratcher so the finish coat will adhere.
- Set up scaffolds.
Technology
- A-Systems JobView
- Autodesk 3ds Max Design
- Autodesk Maya
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- Corel Paint Shop Pro
- Corel Painter
- Cost estimating software
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Embedded systems development software
- IBM Maximo Asset Management
- Linux
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Word
Plasterers and Stucco Masons salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in CAMedian $59,940 · Employment 6,780
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in FLMedian $47,420 · Employment 1,970
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in AZMedian $49,510 · Employment 1,910
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $57,930 · Employment 1,690
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in TXMedian $51,140 · Employment 1,400
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in Phoenix, AZMedian $49,700 · Employment 1,310
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in Riverside, CAMedian $53,580 · Employment 1,290
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in NVMedian $53,610 · Employment 1,150
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in New York, NYMedian $120,180 · Employment 840
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in UTMedian $53,710 · Employment 820
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in Las Vegas, NVMedian $57,140 · Employment 780
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons Salary in San Francisco, CAMedian $71,310 · Employment 580
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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.