Occupation / job
Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators
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
At $46,880, Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators lands just under the $50,020 national midpoint — $3,140 apart, inside the range a single promotion or a move between states closes.
Nationally 16,170 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
Assembly and fabrication suit people who are consistent over long runs and who value predictable hours, a fixed site and a defined task set.
No verified preparation time is on file for Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
The middle half runs $39,430 to $54,490 — $1,255 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.
A quarter of the field earns under $39,430 — $10,590 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if you need a role that is not directly exposed to automation and offshoring.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 16,170 figure counts people already working as Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $46,880 is a genuinely representative number for Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators and the main variable left is where you live.
In cash terms the middle half of Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators runs $39,430 to $54,490 — $15,060 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $46,880.
Getting to $54,490, the 75th percentile, is worth $7,610 a year more than the $46,880 midpoint and $15,060 more than the $39,430 a quarter of Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators settle for.
$7,450 down to $39,430, $7,610 up to $54,490: the midpoint of Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators is centred in its own middle half. That symmetry is why the median and the average would say much the same thing here, which is not true of most pages on this site.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $18.95 at the bottom quarter, $22.53 at the midpoint, $26.19 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
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators. The self-employed are excluded, so $46,880 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $46,880 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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