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Carpet Installers earn $50,340 a year at the midpoint

Across roughly 13,780 people in this work, the midpoint is $50,340 a year, with most starting near $41,970.

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$50,340median a year · United States
$24.20an hour $56,990average 13,780people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$41,97025th $50,340median $66,32075th
$35,45010th percentile $82,14090th percentile
$41,970a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$115,180best-paying state · New Jersey
$33,810lowest-paying state · South Carolina
+129%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 $115,180 in New Jersey and $33,810 in South Carolina — a gap of $81,370 a year.

Carpet installer earnings, from starting pay to the highest 10%

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Carpet installer wages across the states

The 44 states where the most people do this work, of 45 with a published figure: their medians range by 3.41 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
New Jersey $115,180 $48,790 $48,790 — $128,130 390
Minnesota $85,910 $56,730 $56,730 — $88,660 —
Alaska $76,790 $46,740 $46,740 — $79,310 70
Tennessee $74,510 $52,340 $52,340 — $79,440 50
Nevada $67,040 $39,350 $39,350 — $83,510 710
New Hampshire $65,600 $50,720 $50,720 — $89,490 60
Missouri $63,960 $47,380 $47,380 — $100,810 230
Wisconsin $60,830 $37,860 $37,860 — $80,430 420
Hawaii $58,710 $46,920 $46,920 — $62,140 —
Kansas $57,920 $50,390 $50,390 — $81,110 70
Oregon $57,800 $32,900 $32,900 — $82,290 520
Maryland $57,030 $39,170 $39,170 — $85,220 250
Iowa $55,920 $39,150 $39,150 — $74,720 —
Vermont $54,830 $49,400 $49,400 — $65,370 30
Washington $54,830 $43,490 $43,490 — $138,980 470
California $54,440 $38,380 $38,380 — $80,560 2,270
Ohio $54,370 $40,920 $40,920 — $74,700 310
New Mexico $52,700 $34,960 $34,960 — $69,850 60
New York $52,160 $32,240 $32,240 — $74,150 710
Idaho $51,550 $37,980 $37,980 — $56,240 170
Colorado $51,280 $46,260 $46,260 — $75,800 190
Nebraska $50,600 $39,480 $39,480 — $125,010 —
Delaware $50,350 $36,310 $36,310 — $61,220 70
Indiana $49,640 $37,950 $37,950 — $63,340 190
Illinois $49,480 $37,890 $37,890 — $116,300 580
Louisiana $49,400 $37,160 $37,160 — $56,750 100
Connecticut $49,230 $39,480 $39,480 — $76,890 40
Virginia $48,920 $27,860 $27,860 — $79,340 210
Michigan $48,790 $29,210 $29,210 — $78,730 470
Florida $48,580 $36,000 $36,000 — $65,140 550
Georgia $48,260 $34,340 $34,340 — $72,670 530
Arizona $47,920 $43,780 $43,780 — $56,610 260
Alabama $46,600 $30,090 $30,090 — $69,050 190
Pennsylvania $46,030 $36,390 $36,390 — $66,820 490
Utah $44,480 $31,620 $31,620 — $71,490 240
Montana $43,840 $27,820 $27,820 — $47,750 150
Texas $43,610 $31,510 $31,510 — $81,220 810
Oklahoma $42,490 $38,870 $38,870 — $45,020 50
South Dakota $40,420 $35,220 $35,220 — $49,510 80
Kentucky $37,800 $27,710 $27,710 — $61,530 130
Arkansas $37,390 $25,850 $25,850 — $52,320 50
Mississippi $36,590 $27,550 $27,550 — $56,350 180
West Virginia $36,220 $24,390 $24,390 — $56,770 50
South Carolina $33,810 $29,920 $29,920 — $51,270 80

No estimate is published for 1 states: the survey withholds a figure when too few employers report it. Nothing has been filled in for them.

Related work, and what it pays

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

Carpet Installers$50,340
Terrazzo Workers and Finishers$76,170+$25,830 Pile Driver Operators$73,300+$22,960 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters$63,800+$13,460 Electricians$63,190+$12,850 Carpenters$60,580+$10,240 Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$59,850+$9,510

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  • Planned the layout of the carpet, allowing for expected traffic patterns and placing seams for best appearance and longest wear.
  • Joined edges of carpet and seam edges where necessary, by sewing or by using tape with glue and heated carpet iron.
  • Cut carpet padding to size and install padding, following prescribed method.

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Ranked 515 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 35% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 513 Costume Attendants $50,400
  2. 514 Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance $50,340
  3. 515 Carpet Installers $50,340
  4. 516 Statistical Assistants $50,330
  5. 517 Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other $50,290

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Carpet installer pay rate, hourly and yearly

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What is a carpet installer’s yearly income?

A carpet installer makes a median of $50,340 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $41,970 and $66,320.

What is a carpet installer’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $24.20 an hour; the average is $56,990 a year.

What is the starting pay for a carpet installer?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $41,970 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $35,450.

Which state pays carpet installers the most?

New Jersey, with a median of $115,180 a year.

How many people work as carpet installers?

About 13,780 in the United States — number 515 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays about the same

Median pay within $70 of what carpet installers earn — $50,340 a year — but not always the same spread.

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