Occupation / job
Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers
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 $49,910 against $50,020, Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers sits $0.05 an hour under the typical American job. A gap that small is not a reason to choose it or to rule it out; the spread and the entry cost are where the real decision is.
28,380 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.
These roles suit people who have built a specific competence around construction — a hazard, an inspection, an installation type — and want the site work without the trade’s full apprenticeship.
How long it takes to become one of the 28,380 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 $42,810 to $62,440 — $1,635 a month between the quarters, a 1.5x 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 Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers earn less than $42,810, $7,210 off the $50,020 national midpoint — $20.58 an hour. The floor here is close enough to ordinary that the case against this work, if there is one, is not financial.
Avoid it if you need a broad employer base; these roles concentrate in a small number of firms.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 28,380 figure counts people already working as Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers, 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 $42,810 and $62,440, a ratio of 1.5x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers is the cost of living where you do it.
In cash terms the middle half of Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers runs $42,810 to $62,440 — $19,630 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $49,910.
Between $42,810 and $62,440 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $49,910. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $12,530; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $19,630.
It is $7,100 from $49,910 down to $42,810 but $12,530 up to $62,440. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers is $23.99 an hour. The quarters sit at $20.58 and $30.01, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
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 Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $49,910 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers, the hourly figure is $49,910 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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