Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters · SOC 47-3011

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setterss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 46 metro areas

Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$77,990	70	0.0
2	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$70,080	690	0.1
3	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$65,870	190	0.1
4	St. Louis, MO-IL	$64,400	150	0.1
5	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$61,420	150	0.1
6	Urban Honolulu, HI	$61,020	30	0.1
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$59,000	340	0.1
8	New Haven, CT	$58,580	30	0.1
9	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$57,980	110	0.0
10	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$57,410	100	0.1
11	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$57,400	340	0.3
12	Salem, OR	$55,370	90	0.5
13	Salinas, CA	$54,570	50	0.3
14	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$54,000	190	0.6
15	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$52,630	70	0.4
16	Worcester, MA	$52,500	60	0.2
17	Bend, OR	$52,360	40	0.3
18	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$52,070	100	0.1
19	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$51,700	40	0.2
20	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$49,940	40	0.2
21	Sioux Falls, SD-MN	$49,560	40	0.2
22	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$48,670	280	0.2
23	Colorado Springs, CO	$48,530	40	0.1
24	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$48,220	940	0.2
25	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$47,610	Not published	Not published

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.