Occupation / job
Reinforcing Iron and Rebar 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
The $58,970 midpoint sits $4.30 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 18% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers.
13,800 people work as Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.
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 Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
$47,990 to $77,320 — 1.6x, or $2,444 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
At $47,990 — $23.07 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers still means being paid like the average American worker.
Avoid it if the cumulative physical wear is not something you have thought about honestly at the age you would be finishing.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 13,800 figure counts people already working as Reinforcing Iron and Rebar 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
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $58,970 as where you might be after years in Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers, and $47,990 as where you would start.
Put in money rather than ratios: $47,990 at the 25th percentile, $58,970 at the midpoint, $77,320 at the 75th. $29,330 separates the quarter of Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $77,320. Reaching it from the $58,970 midpoint is $18,350 a year; reaching it from the $47,990 that the bottom quarter of Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers earn is $29,330.
It is $10,980 from $58,970 down to $47,990 but $18,350 up to $77,320. 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: $23.07 at the bottom quarter, $28.35 at the midpoint, $37.17 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 $58,970 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.
The hourly number on this page is $58,970 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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