Occupation / job
Brickmasons and Blockmasons
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Brickmasons and Blockmasons pays $62,120 against $50,020 across all occupations — $1,008 a month more. Every premium is paid for something: find out whether it is the schooling, the licence, the hours or the risk before you decide you want it.
52,550 people are employed as Brickmasons and Blockmasons. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.
This work suits people who like finishing something physical, can work in weather, and are content that the site rather than the office sets the hours.
How long it takes to become one of the 52,550 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
From $51,110 to $79,350 is $2,353 a month, or 1.6x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
The 25th percentile is $51,110, $1,090 above the $50,020 typical American job. A floor above the national midpoint is rare, and it is worth more than an equivalent amount of upside.
Avoid it if a gap between projects would leave you without income you could not cover.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 52,550 people employed as Brickmasons and Blockmasons; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
At 1.6x between $51,110 and $79,350 this is a normally shaped occupation. $62,120 is what the middle of Brickmasons and Blockmasons earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
In cash terms the middle half of Brickmasons and Blockmasons runs $51,110 to $79,350 — $28,240 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $62,120.
Between $51,110 and $79,350 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $62,120. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $17,230; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $28,240.
It is $11,010 from $62,120 down to $51,110 but $17,230 up to $79,350. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $29.86 at the midpoint for Brickmasons and Blockmasons, $24.57 at the 25th percentile and $38.14 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Brickmasons and Blockmasons. The self-employed are excluded, so $62,120 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Brickmasons and Blockmasons, the hourly figure is $62,120 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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