Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers
What the pay figures show
- The pay leader for this job is Maine, at $75,340. Tax does not shift it. Prices are the twist. Adjust for what a basket costs and North Dakota comes out ahead, worth $62,702. Worth knowing before anyone packs.
- Nominal and post-tax rankings agree for miscellaneous construction and related workers: Maine leads at $75,340 on both. Applying regional price parities separates them, promoting North Dakota to $62,702 in real terms. Price level, not tax, is the operative variable for this occupation — and it is the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$49,910
People doing it
28,380
Highest paid
$75,340
ME
Best off, really
$62,702
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$36,510
Highest tenth
$78,700
Lowest, really
$32,628
KY
States with data
45
National average
$55,130
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Where you do this job matters enormously. The best state pays roughly twice what the worst does. Prices alone cannot explain a gap that size. Level everything out and the range still runs $32,628 to $62,702.
- Just 28,380 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 45 jurisdictions, averaging $49,910 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. Maine leads the published set.
- Geographic dispersion in miscellaneous construction and related workers is unusually wide: the top state's median is approximately double the bottom's, a spread that price differentials cannot account for. The real-terms range, after tax and price deflation, still runs $32,628 to $62,702 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- 28,380 are employed nationally in miscellaneous construction and related workers — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- Coverage for miscellaneous construction and related workers runs to 45 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: Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,700 |
| This salary | $49,910 |
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 Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers
The national median for this job
$49,910around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $36,510 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $49,910 |
| Top tenth | $78,700 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers, state by state
The national median for this job
45states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Kentucky · $35,420 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Maine · $75,340 |
| Spread | $39,920 |
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 | $47,840 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $49,231 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $66,450 | $55,536 | $62,702 |
| ME | $75,340 | $58,066 | $59,802 |
| ID | $65,420 | $52,131 | $57,021 |
| WI | $63,320 | $50,753 | $54,517 |
| WA | $69,380 | $57,639 | $53,093 |
| MA | $70,540 | $55,248 | $51,043 |
| OH | $54,020 | $44,816 | $48,813 |
| NJ | $65,330 | $52,611 | $48,319 |
| HI | $64,960 | $50,882 | $46,848 |
| LA | $49,660 | $40,978 | $46,384 |
| NH | $58,000 | $48,783 | $46,308 |
| MI | $53,800 | $43,373 | $46,051 |
| PA | $54,950 | $44,645 | $45,790 |
| MN | $55,880 | $44,803 | $45,524 |
| NM | $49,930 | $41,118 | $45,491 |
| NV | $51,430 | $43,504 | $44,859 |
| IN | $50,210 | $41,072 | $44,554 |
| CA | $60,890 | $49,259 | $43,754 |
| IA | $46,990 | $38,763 | $43,668 |
| CO | $54,380 | $44,190 | $43,588 |
| OK | $46,460 | $37,920 | $42,952 |
| MT | $47,280 | $38,704 | $42,888 |
| SC | $48,080 | $39,940 | $42,865 |
| TX | $47,840 | $40,619 | $41,800 |
| NY | $56,170 | $44,876 | $41,697 |
| VT | $49,110 | $40,251 | $41,653 |
| NC | $47,510 | $38,967 | $41,393 |
| UT | $48,880 | $39,280 | $41,346 |
| KS | $45,950 | $36,825 | $40,933 |
| AR | $42,670 | $35,345 | $40,858 |
| WV | $44,300 | $36,571 | $40,738 |
| MO | $45,090 | $37,228 | $40,570 |
| VA | $49,880 | $40,151 | $39,853 |
| IL | $48,780 | $39,105 | $39,558 |
| AZ | $47,550 | $39,600 | $39,167 |
| AK | $46,730 | $39,728 | $39,058 |
| GA | $46,430 | $37,768 | $39,058 |
| MD | $49,840 | $40,223 | $38,689 |
| TN | $41,600 | $35,606 | $38,486 |
| CT | $49,380 | $39,885 | $38,466 |
| OR | $51,110 | $39,325 | $37,552 |
| FL | $45,120 | $38,434 | $37,151 |
| DE | $43,060 | $34,956 | $35,219 |
| MS | $36,260 | $29,957 | $34,318 |
| KY | $35,420 | $29,518 | $32,628 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $49,910 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Maine, at $58,066.
- The price adjustment for this job uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — Kentucky anchors the bottom at $32,628. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- All wage figures for miscellaneous construction and related workers are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $49,910. 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.
- Retained-pay figures for miscellaneous construction and related workers model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $58,066, which leads in Maine.
- Real-terms figures for miscellaneous construction and related workers deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.