Occupation / job
Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
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
Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles pays $56,460, a little over the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $6,440 a year clear, or $3.09 an hour. A margin that size is worth having but is not on its own a reason to take on an entry requirement.
At 23,640 employed, this is a mid-sized occupation. In a normal city that means several possible employers and a genuine market rate, which is the point at which knowing the numbers on this page starts to be worth money.
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.
No verified preparation time is on file for Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles. 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
From $45,660 to $73,840 is $2,348 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 bottom quarter of Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles earns under $45,660, which is within $4,360 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.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 23,640 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $56,460 as where you might be after years in Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles, and $45,660 as where you would start.
In cash terms the middle half of Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles runs $45,660 to $73,840 — $28,180 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $56,460.
The 75th percentile is $73,840. Reaching it from the $56,460 midpoint is $17,380 a year; reaching it from the $45,660 that the bottom quarter of Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles earn is $28,180.
It is $10,800 from $56,460 down to $45,660 but $17,380 up to $73,840. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $21.95 at the bottom quarter, $27.14 at the midpoint, $35.50 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 Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles. The self-employed are excluded, so $56,460 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $56,460 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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