Tile and Stone Setters · SOC 47-2044

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Tile and Stone Setterss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for tile and stone setters. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (1 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 125 metro areas

Tile and Stone Setters: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$88,730	30	0.4
2	Urban Honolulu, HI	$86,850	290	0.6
3	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$82,230	Not published	Not published
4	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$79,040	450	0.2
5	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$74,670	550	0.1
6	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$71,750	450	0.2
7	Visalia, CA	$71,280	110	0.7
8	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$70,730	390	0.1
9	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$69,990	30	0.1
10	Springfield, MA	$67,070	30	0.2
11	Lancaster, PA	$66,130	50	0.2
12	Pittsburgh, PA	$65,750	230	0.2
13	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$65,580	60	0.1
14	Madison, WI	$64,930	50	0.1
15	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$64,430	1,020	0.4
16	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$64,330	80	1.1
17	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$64,160	120	0.1
18	St. Louis, MO-IL	$63,640	280	0.2
19	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$63,540	990	0.9
20	New Haven, CT	$62,750	50	0.2
21	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$62,580	430	0.4
22	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$61,900	390	0.3
23	Green Bay, WI	$61,790	40	0.3
24	Rochester, NY	$61,710	110	0.2
25	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$61,410	2,600	0.3

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Tile and Stone 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.