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Tire Builders earn $57,390 a year at the midpoint

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The lowest tenth are paid about $40,150, the highest tenth about $74,680 — figures from the 2025 federal wage survey.

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$57,390median a year · United States
$27.59an hour $57,160average 20,770people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$47,90025th $57,390median $64,38075th
$40,15010th percentile $74,68090th percentile
$47,900a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$74,100best-paying state · Tennessee
$44,150lowest-paying state · Florida
+29%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $74,100 in Tennessee and $44,150 in Florida — a gap of $29,950 a year.

Tire builder earnings, from starting pay up to the top 10%

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Tire builder pay rate, hourly to annual

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$57,387a year

Adjacent work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Tire Builders$57,390
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$50,270−$7,120 Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders$46,460−$10,930 Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic$46,170−$11,220 Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders$43,530−$13,860 Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders$41,330−$16,060

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  • Built semi-raw rubber treads onto buffed tire casings to prepare tires for vulcanization in recapping or retreading processes.
  • Trimmed excess rubber and imperfections during retreading processes.
  • Filled cuts and holes in tires, using hot rubber.

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Tire builder wages, state by state

Across 20 states the median ranges by 1.68 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Tennessee $74,100 $45,560 $45,560 — $82,190 1,360
North Carolina $63,950 $47,750 $47,750 — $79,740 3,750
Illinois $59,830 $59,680 $59,680 — $70,270 —
Ohio $56,370 $40,370 $40,370 — $75,210 780
Texas $54,880 $46,070 $46,070 — $58,910 610
Mississippi $53,050 $44,480 $44,480 — $55,380 710
Indiana $51,170 $40,590 $40,590 — $58,470 1,320
Iowa $50,600 $38,650 $38,650 — $63,820 510
Connecticut $48,630 $38,910 $38,910 — $65,940 90
Oregon $48,380 $39,440 $39,440 — $57,360 250
New York $46,550 $38,550 $38,550 — $47,470 530
Maryland $46,290 $37,320 $37,320 — $72,820 60
Kentucky $46,010 $32,050 $32,050 — $55,020 270
Oklahoma $45,830 $37,700 $37,700 — $59,340 —
Arizona $45,770 $38,510 $38,510 — $64,900 130
Pennsylvania $45,270 $37,550 $37,550 — $49,450 360
California $44,790 $37,830 $37,830 — $49,610 360
Michigan $44,420 $39,140 $39,140 — $53,920 80
Georgia $44,220 $35,970 $35,970 — $49,560 940
Florida $44,150 $38,360 $38,360 — $75,490 170

Place 440 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 44% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 438 Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining $57,430
  2. 439 Stonemasons $57,390
  3. 440 Tire Builders $57,390
  4. 441 Glaziers $57,080
  5. 442 Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers $57,020

Questions people ask

What is a tire builder’s yearly income?

A tire builder makes a median of $57,390 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $47,900 and $64,380.

What is a tire builder’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $27.59 an hour; the average is $57,160 a year.

What is the starting pay for a tire builder?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $47,900 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $40,150.

Which state pays tire builders the most?

Tennessee, with a median of $74,100 a year.

How many people work as tire builders?

About 20,770 in the United States — number 440 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $160 of what tire builders earn — $57,390 a year — but not always the same spread.

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