Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall · SOC 47-2131

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Walls

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall. 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 112 metro areas

Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Omaha, NE-IA	$81,880	Not published	Not published
2	Columbus, OH	$80,000	380	0.3
3	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$76,610	40	0.3
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$76,170	370	0.2
5	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$71,980	1,250	0.6
6	Medford, OR	$71,470	50	0.5
7	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$70,410	200	0.5
8	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$65,930	50	0.1
9	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$63,200	550	0.4
10	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$62,710	90	1.8
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$61,730	1,500	0.2
12	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$61,690	150	0.6
13	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$60,960	450	0.4
14	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$60,730	280	2.2
15	Salem, OR	$60,290	120	0.6
16	Colorado Springs, CO	$59,440	140	0.5
17	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$59,290	240	0.2
18	St. Louis, MO-IL	$59,040	520	0.4
19	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$58,890	190	0.2
20	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$58,850	600	0.1
21	Salisbury, MD	$58,420	50	1.0
22	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$58,360	90	0.1
23	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$58,240	870	0.4
24	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$57,190	90	0.2
25	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	$56,930	40	0.4

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall 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.