Occupation / job
Stonemasons
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
A $57,390 midpoint puts Stonemasons $614 a month ahead of the $50,020 typical American job. Real, but small enough that a change of employer or metro would move it as much as the occupation itself does.
With 7,820 employed nationally, Stonemasons is a small occupation. Small occupations are quiet: few postings, slow turnover, and a real chance that the person you would replace is not going anywhere.
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.
No verified preparation time is on file for Stonemasons. 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 $45,450 to $71,630 is $2,181 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.
At $45,450, or $21.85 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $4,570 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.
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 7,820 figure counts people already working as Stonemasons, 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 $57,390 as where you might be after years in Stonemasons, and $45,450 as where you would start.
Put in money rather than ratios: $45,450 at the 25th percentile, $57,390 at the midpoint, $71,630 at the 75th. $26,180 separates the quarter of Stonemasons at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $71,630. Reaching it from the $57,390 midpoint is $14,240 a year; reaching it from the $45,450 that the bottom quarter of Stonemasons earn is $26,180.
From $57,390 it is $11,940 down to the bottom quarter and $14,240 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Stonemasons is $27.59 an hour. The quarters sit at $21.85 and $34.43, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Stonemasons. The self-employed are excluded, so $57,390 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 $57,390 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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