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Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters pay in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters is $39,700 per year in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. It is $77,990 per year in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is 49.1% below Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 47-3011 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 460 wage and salary jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX and 70 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.