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Floor Sanders and Finishers earn $50,440 a year at the midpoint

A small field — roughly 3,720 people nationwide — with a midpoint of $50,440. Pay runs from about $37,070 at the low end to $70,340 at the top, per the 2025 federal survey.

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$50,440median a year · United States
$24.25an hour $52,460average 3,720people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$41,60025th $50,440median $59,62075th
$37,07010th percentile $70,34090th percentile
$41,600a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$74,240best-paying state · Utah
$39,170lowest-paying state · North Carolina
+47%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 $74,240 in Utah and $39,170 in North Carolina — a gap of $35,070 a year.

Floor sander earnings, from starting pay to the top 10%

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  • Buffed and vacuumed floors to ensure their cleanliness prior to the application of finish.
  • Scraped and sanded floor edges and areas inaccessible to floor sanders, using scrapers, disk-type sanders, and sandpaper.
  • Inspected floors for smoothness.

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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.

Floor Sanders and Finishers$50,440
Terrazzo Workers and Finishers$76,170+$25,730 Pile Driver Operators$73,300+$22,860 Plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters$63,800+$13,360 Electricians$63,190+$12,750 Carpenters$60,580+$10,140 Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators$59,850+$9,410

No. 512 of 788 by median pay

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

  1. 510 Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping $50,610
  2. 511 Procurement Clerks $50,580
  3. 512 Floor Sanders and Finishers $50,440
  4. 513 Costume Attendants $50,400
  5. 514 Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance $50,340

Floor sander wages, state by state

The 18 states where the most people do this work, of 23 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.90 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Utah $74,240 $65,430 $65,430 — $77,410 30
Minnesota $62,940 $55,290 $55,290 — $62,950 —
Oregon $62,020 $57,910 $57,910 — $68,280 —
New York $60,470 $49,350 $49,350 — $72,560 240
Massachusetts $58,230 $45,380 $45,380 — $68,680 —
Washington $55,620 $38,050 $38,050 — $81,110 90
Colorado $55,180 $47,350 $47,350 — $58,550 130
Kentucky $54,580 $46,750 $46,750 — $80,150 —
Florida $52,060 $32,640 $32,640 — $56,060 270
Michigan $51,400 $37,440 $37,440 — $59,620 —
Maryland $51,100 $35,640 $35,640 — $76,320 —
Missouri $48,540 $44,670 $44,670 — $57,030 —
Virginia $46,860 $31,140 $31,140 — $67,200 110
Iowa $46,810 $31,660 $31,660 — $95,680 30
Pennsylvania $45,450 $36,980 $36,980 — $79,370 30
South Carolina $44,310 $39,470 $39,470 — $48,320 60
Texas $40,120 $36,180 $36,180 — $56,070 140
North Carolina $39,170 $31,190 $31,190 — $47,590 190

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What people often ask

What is a floor sander’s yearly income?

A floor sander makes a median of $50,440 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $41,600 and $59,620.

What is a floor sander’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $24.25 an hour; the average is $52,460 a year.

What is the starting pay for a floor sander?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $41,600 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $37,070.

Which state pays floor sanders and finishers the most?

Utah, with a median of $74,240 a year.

How many people work as floor sanders and finishers?

About 3,720 in the United States — number 512 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Jobs that pay about the same

Median pay within $150 of what floor sanders and finishers earn — $50,440 a year — but not always the same spread.

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