Brickmasons and Blockmasons in Massachusetts
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$71,200
after federal, FICA and Massachusetts tax
Tax takes
$23,750
25.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,781
Massachusetts costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Massachusetts — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$94,950
Kept after tax
$71,200
Worth in national money
$65,781
State rank
2
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for brickmasons and blockmasons is strong here. Massachusetts's middle earner gets $94,950, putting the state 2 of 50 — about 52.85% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Massachusetts, this sits in the middle: 136 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $94,950, tax leaves $71,200 — and because Massachusetts is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $65,781 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $99,860, since top earners drag the number up.
- For brickmasons and blockmasons, Massachusetts sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $94,950, ranking 2 of 50 and running about 52.85% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Brickmasons and blockmasons ranks 136 of 485 occupations in Massachusetts by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After tax, $71,200 remains from the Massachusetts median of $94,950 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $65,781 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $99,860 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Brickmasons and Blockmasons
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,940 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $94,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $136,860 |
| This salary | $94,950 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Massachusetts | $71,200 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $75,627 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$12,045 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $88,656 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$16,638 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Massachusetts earn less than $94,950. The published range is $59,940 up to $136,860, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $71,200 take-home in Massachusetts comes from $94,950. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 136 of 485.
- Two cautions on $65,781, the adjusted value of that $94,950 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Massachusetts. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 136 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for brickmasons and blockmasons in Massachusetts the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $59,940 to $136,860. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $71,200, from $94,950, assumes a single Massachusetts filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 136 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 2 of 50 for it.
- This $65,781 adjusted figure, worked from $94,950, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 136 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 136 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $99,860 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $59,940, the highest tenth $136,860, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $65,781 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Massachusetts adds its own income tax on top — which is why $71,200 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Massachusetts is $99,860. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($59,940) and the ninetieth ($136,860) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Massachusetts's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $65,781 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $71,200 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Massachusetts income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.