Glaziers
What the pay figures show
- For once the obvious answer is right. Massachusetts pays glaziers best, at $100,810. It keeps that lead after tax. It keeps it after local prices too — $69,319 in comparable money. Most jobs are not this tidy.
- The nominal leader for glaziers is also the real leader: Massachusetts at $100,810, holding through tax and through price deflation to $69,319. Both adjustments leave the ordering at the top intact, which indicates a wage premium large enough to dominate the state's tax burden and price level rather than merely offset them.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$57,080
People doing it
58,480
Highest paid
$100,810
MA
Best off, really
$69,319
MA, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$37,300
Highest tenth
$89,790
Lowest, really
$34,746
MS
States with data
50
National average
$59,720
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
108.24%
MA, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job roughly doubles depending on the state. That is a lot. Some of it is prices, because dear places pay more to make up for costing more. Most of it is not. In real money the range is still $34,746 to $69,319.
- This is a small job: about 58,480 people nationally. Fewer workers means each state figure is built on less data.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 50 jurisdictions, averaging $57,080 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. Massachusetts leads the published set.
- Interstate variation in glaziers pay approaches twofold nominally. The standard explanation — that high-wage states are merely high-cost states — is only partly supported here: after tax and price adjustment the range remains $34,746 to $69,319, so the majority of the gap represents a real difference in what the work buys.
- With 58,480 workers, glaziers is among the smaller occupations BLS publishes. Treat single-state figures as indicative rather than precise; suppression and sampling error both bite harder at this scale.
- Coverage for glaziers runs to 50 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: Glaziers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $89,790 |
| This salary | $57,080 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Glaziers
The national median for this job
$57,080around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $37,300 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $57,080 |
| Top tenth | $89,790 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Glaziers, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $36,750 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Massachusetts · $100,810 |
| Spread | $64,060 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $47,730 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $49,118 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA | $100,810 | $75,029 | $69,319 |
| ND | $61,800 | $51,836 | $58,524 |
| HI | $80,800 | $60,975 | $56,142 |
| DC | $78,390 | $60,283 | $54,405 |
| OH | $60,200 | $49,612 | $54,036 |
| WI | $62,400 | $50,069 | $53,781 |
| MN | $66,130 | $52,342 | $53,184 |
| IN | $60,210 | $48,812 | $52,951 |
| IA | $57,330 | $46,678 | $52,585 |
| ID | $59,850 | $47,951 | $52,448 |
| AK | $63,000 | $52,801 | $51,910 |
| NJ | $70,890 | $56,332 | $51,736 |
| WA | $66,860 | $55,866 | $51,460 |
| WY | $55,030 | $46,397 | $51,071 |
| OR | $70,890 | $53,048 | $50,657 |
| VT | $60,390 | $48,828 | $50,528 |
| CO | $62,340 | $50,236 | $49,551 |
| IL | $61,840 | $48,952 | $49,519 |
| RI | $61,650 | $49,824 | $49,130 |
| CT | $63,840 | $50,714 | $48,910 |
| PA | $58,810 | $47,628 | $48,850 |
| NH | $58,850 | $49,466 | $46,956 |
| VA | $59,260 | $47,149 | $46,798 |
| AZ | $56,560 | $46,614 | $46,105 |
| MD | $59,890 | $47,820 | $45,997 |
| CA | $64,040 | $51,585 | $45,821 |
| MO | $51,430 | $42,024 | $45,797 |
| NY | $61,760 | $49,066 | $45,589 |
| SD | $47,140 | $40,057 | $45,470 |
| WV | $49,810 | $40,766 | $45,411 |
| NE | $50,190 | $40,928 | $45,286 |
| MI | $52,770 | $42,589 | $45,219 |
| SC | $50,650 | $41,835 | $44,898 |
| MT | $49,360 | $40,278 | $44,632 |
| TN | $48,610 | $41,238 | $44,575 |
| KY | $49,110 | $40,039 | $44,257 |
| LA | $47,150 | $39,037 | $44,187 |
| UT | $51,470 | $41,246 | $43,416 |
| NV | $49,490 | $41,945 | $43,251 |
| NM | $46,940 | $38,845 | $42,977 |
| AR | $44,700 | $36,901 | $42,656 |
| OK | $45,380 | $37,101 | $42,024 |
| KS | $47,090 | $37,678 | $41,880 |
| TX | $47,730 | $40,531 | $41,709 |
| AL | $45,520 | $36,808 | $40,912 |
| NC | $46,170 | $37,944 | $40,306 |
| ME | $47,770 | $38,659 | $39,815 |
| FL | $47,030 | $39,969 | $38,635 |
| GA | $43,340 | $35,440 | $36,650 |
| MS | $36,750 | $30,331 | $34,746 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for glaziers, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $57,080 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for glaziers. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Massachusetts keeps the most at $75,029.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for glaziers. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Mississippi, on $34,746.
- All wage figures for glaziers are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $57,080. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- The household modeled for glaziers is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Massachusetts retains the most, $75,029. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms results for glaziers rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Mississippi anchors the distribution at $34,746. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.