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COMMERCIAL FLOORING - ROLE PROFILE

Commercial Carpet Installer

We place this role between $52,000 and $72,000 a year at mid experience, before overtime, bonus and on-call.

What this role pays.

That band is mid experience, built from our own engagement history. Experience and region move it - the salary calculator applies both.

The federal occupation this role reports under is Carpet Installers (SOC 47-2041), May 2025. Nationally it reports a median of $50,340 , with the middle of the market between $35,450 and $82,140. BLS counts this job inside that occupation rather than publishing it separately, so the figures cover a slightly wider group than this exact title.

Where it pays most.

Carpet Installers across the metros we cover, May 2025. BLS publishes a median for 33 of them and withholds the rest, where the local sample was too small to be reliable.

Highest-paying metros - Carpet Installers
Metro Median Employed there
Reno $78,080 180
St. Louis $71,020 130
New York $64,590 620
Kansas City $63,500 70
Rochester $61,700 70
San Francisco $61,500 290
Washington, D.C. $58,500 160
Portland $57,840 360
Dallas-Fort Worth $42,610 230
Salt Lake City $46,060 100
Harrisburg $47,100 60

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. The last three rows are the lowest-paying metros in the same set. Headcount is metro-wide across every industry, not this trade alone.

Credentials that move an offer.

  • INSTALL

Licensing is a state question, not a national one. The Commercial Flooring hiring page carries the state-by-state position, and every market page names the authority for that state.

What the search actually takes.

We have closed 0 commercial flooring searches in 2026 year to date, which is below the 8 we require before publishing a median. We would rather print the count than a number the sample cannot carry. The Hiring Index shows what we do and do not have.

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