Occupation / job
Glaziers
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
Glaziers pays $57,080, a little over the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $7,060 a year clear, or $3.39 an hour. A margin that size is worth having but is not on its own a reason to take on an entry requirement.
58,480 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Glaziers is still a distinguishing thing to have.
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 58,480 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
The middle half runs $46,320 to $66,610 — $1,690 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.
At $46,320, or $22.26 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $3,700 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.
Avoid it if a gap between projects would leave you without income you could not cover.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 58,480 figure counts people already working as Glaziers, 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
The quarters are $46,320 and $66,610, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Glaziers is the cost of living where you do it.
In cash terms the middle half of Glaziers runs $46,320 to $66,610 — $20,290 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $57,080.
Getting to $66,610, the 75th percentile, is worth $9,530 a year more than the $57,080 midpoint and $20,290 more than the $46,320 a quarter of Glaziers settle for.
There is $10,760 between $46,320 and $57,080, and $9,530 between $57,080 and $66,610. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Glaziers at the bottom of it.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $22.26 at the bottom quarter, $27.44 at the midpoint, $32.02 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
The $57,080 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Glaziers, the hourly figure is $57,080 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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