Occupation / job
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
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
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers pays $57,020 against $50,020 across all occupations, which is $583 a month ahead. A modest premium, and modest premiums are usually attached to modest requirements — check what this one is attached to.
National employment is 206,170. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
These trades suit people who want a skill that is portable, credentialed by doing rather than by studying, and demonstrably useful to somebody in every town.
We carry no verified training length for Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers earn under $47,010 and a quarter over $66,870 — 1.4x, or $19,860 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
The bottom quarter of Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers earns under $47,010, which is within $3,010 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if the cumulative physical wear is not something you have thought about honestly at the age you would be finishing.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 206,170 people employed as Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers; 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
The quarters are $47,010 and $66,870, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers is the cost of living where you do it.
In cash terms the middle half of Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers runs $47,010 to $66,870 — $19,860 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $57,020.
The 75th percentile is $66,870. Reaching it from the $57,020 midpoint is $9,850 a year; reaching it from the $47,010 that the bottom quarter of Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers earn is $19,860.
$57,020 sits almost exactly in the middle of its own range — $10,010 above the bottom quarter, $9,850 below the top one. A symmetric distribution like this is the case where the median genuinely does describe the typical person.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $22.60 at the bottom quarter, $27.41 at the midpoint, $32.14 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $57,020 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers, the hourly figure is $57,020 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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