Occupation / job
Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
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 midpoint of $76,170 against $50,020 means Terrazzo Workers and Finishers pays $2,179 a month more than the typical American job. At that distance the entry requirement is the real subject, because it is what the premium is buying.
There are 1,180 of these posts in the country. Plan on the assumption that the job will not appear where you already live, because on those numbers it usually will not.
The building trades suit people who want to be paid to learn a craft rather than pay to learn a subject, and who can plan around work that stops when the project or the weather does.
No verified preparation time is on file for Terrazzo Workers and Finishers. 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
At 2.1x, from $54,830 to $114,780, the two halves of Terrazzo Workers and Finishers are not really doing the same job. $4,995 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.
Even the 25th percentile pays $54,830, $4,810 more than the $50,020 typical American job and $26.36 an hour. The floor, not the median, is the strongest financial argument for Terrazzo Workers and Finishers.
Avoid it if you have an existing back, knee or shoulder injury, or if intermittent layoffs between projects would be unmanageable.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 1,180 figure counts people already working as Terrazzo Workers and Finishers, 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
From $54,830 to $114,780 at 2.1x: something inside this occupation sorts people a long way apart. Identifying what it is — sector, employer, credential — is worth more than any general advice about Terrazzo Workers and Finishers.
Put in money rather than ratios: $54,830 at the 25th percentile, $76,170 at the midpoint, $114,780 at the 75th. $59,950 separates the quarter of Terrazzo Workers and Finishers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $114,780. Reaching it from the $76,170 midpoint is $38,610 a year; reaching it from the $54,830 that the bottom quarter of Terrazzo Workers and Finishers earn is $59,950.
The distance from the midpoint up to $114,780 is $38,610 — well over the $21,340 down to $54,830. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Terrazzo Workers and Finishers earns, and half the field is in that upper half.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $36.62 at the midpoint for Terrazzo Workers and Finishers, $26.36 at the 25th percentile and $55.18 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
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 Terrazzo Workers and Finishers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $76,170 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $76,170 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Terrazzo Workers and Finishers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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