Salary for Floor Layers (not including Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles)
Also known as: Composition Floor Layer, Cork Floor Installer, Laminate Floor Installer, Linoleum Installer, Resilient Tile Installer, Shock-Absorption Floor Layer, Vinyl Flooring Installer, Vinyl Installer
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Similar to carpet installers, floor layers lay flooring in homes, restaurants and other buildings. While their work is not as dangerous as other construction work, there is still a higher rate of injury than most careers as many power tools are used and there is a good amount of kneeling involved in the work. Other than a high school diploma or GED, floor layers do not usually need any formal training or education to be hired. Most floor layers learn their trade in the first few months of being employed, though they will sometimes have to pass an exam before being employed officially.A Floor Layer earns an average salary ranging from $27,260 to $79,500 depending on experience and talent. Floor Layers will normally receive average salaries of fourty-nine thousand seven hundred and fourty dollars yearly.
Floor Layers are paid most highly in New Jersey, where they receive average job salaries of about $69,330. These employees make the highest salary in Educational Services, where they earn an average pay rate of $55,250.
The annual compensation for this career has gone up since 2004. Salaries have increased by an average of 39.48 percent nationwide in that time.
Floor Layers (not including Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles) tend to make the most in the following industries:
In general, they earn less within the industries below:
