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Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers earn $52,540 a year at the midpoint

Across roughly 22,440 people in this work, the midpoint is $52,540 a year, with most starting near $39,520.

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$52,540median a year · United States
$25.26an hour $57,960average 22,440people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$39,52025th $52,540median $69,81075th
$35,58010th percentile $87,54090th percentile
$39,520a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$69,800best-paying state · Connecticut
$35,950lowest-paying state · Arkansas
+33%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 $69,800 in Connecticut and $35,950 in Arkansas — a gap of $33,850 a year.

Jeweler earnings, from starting pay to the top 10%

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Jeweler wages in each state

The 34 states where the most people do this work, of 47 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.72 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Virginia $61,940 $36,990 $36,990 — $93,840 240
New York $61,720 $37,160 $37,160 — $102,040 4,300
California $60,790 $38,180 $38,180 — $81,660 2,300
South Carolina $60,380 $39,850 $39,850 — $74,350 200
Washington $60,380 $42,210 $42,210 — $116,020 290
New Jersey $59,480 $34,790 $34,790 — $93,350 780
Colorado $57,120 $37,020 $37,020 — $83,420 220
Michigan $56,610 $37,770 $37,770 — $79,970 460
Missouri $56,140 $39,840 $39,840 — $63,140 490
Wisconsin $55,830 $33,270 $33,270 — $77,750 280
North Carolina $55,420 $32,470 $32,470 — $80,200 770
Illinois $54,990 $32,430 $32,430 — $78,580 610
Pennsylvania $54,880 $38,510 $38,510 — $93,490 760
Minnesota $54,310 $23,150 $23,150 — $76,790 220
Florida $51,470 $36,360 $36,360 — $97,810 1,070
Louisiana $51,420 $26,740 $26,740 — $73,880 280
Massachusetts $51,060 $36,510 $36,510 — $79,000 830
Iowa $50,280 $37,370 $37,370 — $69,930 160
Rhode Island $48,800 $39,190 $39,190 — $77,650 540
Hawaii $48,450 $30,400 $30,400 — $92,880 170
Tennessee $48,240 $31,140 $31,140 — $77,230 370
Ohio $48,190 $34,080 $34,080 — $87,170 430
Georgia $47,810 $22,720 $22,720 — $83,200 420
Indiana $47,620 $28,720 $28,720 — $77,270 380
Texas $47,590 $32,560 $32,560 — $80,680 1,810
Kentucky $47,090 $33,830 $33,830 — $82,420 320
New Mexico $46,200 $30,000 $30,000 — $58,440 230
Oregon $44,510 $38,550 $38,550 — $82,840 530
New Hampshire $43,520 $36,170 $36,170 — $72,800 170
Arizona $42,240 $34,850 $34,850 — $75,920 440
Oklahoma $41,720 $31,420 $31,420 — $62,170 180
Nevada $40,510 $28,610 $28,610 — $72,730 330
Utah $39,860 $30,450 $30,450 — $63,340 420
Arkansas $35,950 $27,910 $27,910 — $65,990 270

Jeweler pay rate, hourly and yearly

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  • Cleaned and polished metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths.
  • Smoothed soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polished smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.
  • Created jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones.

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Ranked 482 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 39% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 480 Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers $52,720
  2. 481 Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers $52,600
  3. 482 Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers $52,540
  4. 483 Cargo and Freight Agents $52,260
  5. 484 Credit Counselors $52,230

Neighbouring work, and what it pays

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

Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers$52,540
Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders$58,040+$5,500 Semiconductor Processing Technicians$51,430−$1,110 Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$50,270−$2,270 Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$48,990−$3,550 Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$48,570−$3,970 Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$48,250−$4,290

Questions people ask

What is a jeweler’s yearly income?

A jeweler makes a median of $52,540 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $39,520 and $69,810.

What is a jeweler’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $25.26 an hour; the average is $57,960 a year.

What is the starting pay for a jeweler?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $39,520 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $35,580.

Which state pays jewelers and precious stone and metal workers the most?

Connecticut, with a median of $69,800 a year.

How many people work as jewelers and precious stone and metal workers?

About 22,440 in the United States — number 482 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays about the same

Median pay within $310 of what jewelers and precious stone and metal workers earn — $52,540 a year — but not always the same spread.

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