Commercial flooring recruiters serving San Antonio.
Healthcare and institutional work drive the high end here - seamless, antimicrobial, and specialty resilient systems for hospital and lab environments.
The medical center, not the data center campus.
Metro pay for every role we recruit is in the table below. What the hub does name: healthcare and institutional work driving the high end - not Microsoft's West Side data center build-out that drives other trades on the same page.
We recruit across the full org chart for commercial flooring contractors in San Antonio against that documented context.
$400M+ in medical center expansion.
One named driver, distinct from this metro's headline hyperscale project.
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Research, hospital, and academic build-out through 2027 - the metro's named driver behind seamless, antimicrobial, and specialty resilient flooring systems for hospital and lab environments.
What commercial flooring roles pay in San Antonio.
In the San Antonio metro, BLS puts the median for floor layers at $38,870 a year, 31% below the $56,460 national median. Among the 56 metros BLS publishes for this occupation, San Antonio ranks 54th on pay. Most of the market sits between $31,840 and $54,910. Of the other field roles, tile and stone setter pays the most locally, at a $44,690 median. Floor layers, tile setters and carpet installers are published separately, which is why the range across the rows below is wide. BLS does not publish San Antonio pay for 2 of the roles below, which it withholds where a metro's sample is too small to be reliable. National benchmarks by role are in the 2026 Commercial Flooring Salary Guide.
| Role | San Antonio median | Typical range | National median | vs. national | Employed locally |
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| Floor LayerFloor Layers (47-2042) | $38,870 | $31,840–$54,910 | $56,460 | −31% | 90 |
| Tile and Stone SetterTile and Stone Setters (47-2044) | $44,690 | $36,780–$55,590 | $55,690 | −20% | 90 |
| Carpet InstallerCarpet Installers (47-2041) | – | – | $50,340 | – | – |
| Floor Sander / FinisherFloor Sanders and Finishers (47-2043) | – | – | $50,440 | – | – |
| Flooring ForemanFirst-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers (47-1011) | $73,520 | $47,850–$104,110 | $79,920 | −8% | – |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, San Antonio metro. Range is 10th to 90th percentile. Headcount is shown for field occupations only; management, estimating and supervisory codes are counted across every industry in the metro.
What candidates expect. What credentials matter. What kills offers.
We don't tell prospective clients who their competitors are hiring - that's a discipline our clients value, and we'll honor it on a call. What we will share publicly: how San Antonio commercial flooring hiring actually plays out in 2026.
Why we don't tie this page to Microsoft's data center campuses
Microsoft's multi-billion data center build-out on the West Side is the metro's single largest named project, driving extreme demand for power-systems electricians. The hub's own flooring mini names UT Health/South Texas Medical Center instead, so that's what we report.
Why healthcare-spec project managers are the named scarcity role
The hub is explicit that PMs with healthcare-spec experience are hardest to find - a specific, named shortage tied to the medical center's expansion scale.
What this means for sourcing
We source against verified hospital/lab-environment flooring and healthcare-spec project management experience, not resume claims, given the specific shortage the hub names.
Realistic timelines
Standard commercial flooring roles: 4-6 weeks intake to signed offer, consistent with the region's broader hiring timeline. First slate of vetted candidates within 48 hours regardless.
The commercial flooring positions we fill, most often.
Across all San Antonio commercial flooring clients, these are the highest-volume roles we've recruited for in the last 24 months.
- Hospital/lab-environment flooring installer
- Polished concrete/epoxy installer (industrial)
- Institutional flooring installer
- Commercial flooring project manager (healthcare-spec)
For the broader picture across every commercial trade in San Antonio, see the San Antonio metro overview. To learn more about commercial flooring generally (across all 100+ markets we serve), see our Commercial Flooring industry page.
How we recruit commercial flooring in San Antonio, plainly.
Same approach we use in every market - but tuned for what works in San Antonio's commercial flooring segment specifically:
- Same-day intake call. We get the role, the project context, the budget, your dealbreakers. For San Antonio flooring work, we also confirm whether the role is hospital/lab-environment or standard commercial installation.
- Candidate sourcing within 48 hours. We pull from our existing San Antonio commercial flooring candidate network, filtered for verified healthcare-spec project management experience where relevant.
- Vetted short list (week one to several weeks). Three to five candidates. We verify real installation or project-management history rather than a line on a resume.
- Offer and close. Standard roles close in 4-6 weeks. We help with offer math against San Antonio's documented general context.
San Antonio runs 49% fewer commercial flooring workers per job than the country as a whole — well below the national concentration. Fewer per job means the people you want are already working, and usually for someone who would rather keep them.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 , Floor Layers (nearest published occupation for this trade). Metro-wide figures for the base occupation; the wage table above is role-specific and commercial.
How San Antonio's commercial flooring market compares
In 2023 the San Antonio metro had 22 nonresidential flooring contractors (counted by business location). BLS publishes that count but withholds headcount and pay here, which it does when a category is small enough that the figures could identify individual employers. The number of these employers rose 4.8%, more firms competing for the same crews. That works out to 0.8 per 100,000 residents against 1.0 nationally. Fewer local employers means experienced people are easier to identify, but many work for firms based outside the metro.
Among the 54 metros we cover with published BLS figures, San Antonio ranks 37th for headcount, 52nd for median pay and 44th for concentration for floor layers. Pay here is among the lowest we see, which makes relocation offers from higher-paying metros a real retention risk.
| Metro | Employed | Median pay | Concentration | Commercial employers |
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| Dallas-Fort Worth | 380 | $43,950 | 0.62 | 77 |
| Houston | 380 | $43,020 | 0.77 | 66 |
| San Antonio | 90 | $38,870 | 0.51 | 22 |
| Austin | – | – | – | 36 |
| McAllen | – | – | – | 1 |
| El Paso | – | – | – | 11 |
BLS OEWS occupation figures and QCEW business-location counts; a dash means not published.
What this means for hiring:For commercial flooring employers in San Antonio, the local pool is thinner than most, so plan on recruiting some roles in from outside the metro.
Sources: BLS QCEW 2023 annual averages and BLS OEWS May 2025, San Antonio metro. Employers are counted by business location.
How San Antonio's commercial flooring market has changed since 2018.
The number of nonresidential flooring contractors in San Antonio rose from 20 in 2018 to 22 in 2023, up 10%, close to the 7% national change. BLS stops short of publishing headcount and pay for them here, which happens when a handful of firms account for most of the work.
| Measure | 2018 | 2023 | Change |
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| Nonresidential flooring contractors: business locations | 20 | 22 | +10% |
| Nonresidential flooring contractors: employment | 198 | – | – |
| Nonresidential flooring contractors: average annual pay | $54,198 | – | – |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private employers, annual averages. A dash means BLS did not publish the figure.
Frequently asked — commercial flooring hiring in San Antonio.
Is San Antonio's flooring demand tied to Microsoft's data center campuses?
No - Microsoft's West San Antonio build-out is real, but the hub's own flooring data doesn't connect it to flooring demand. The hub instead names UT Health San Antonio and the South Texas Medical Center expansions.
What is driving commercial flooring demand in San Antonio right now?
Healthcare and institutional work drive the high end - seamless, antimicrobial, and specialty resilient systems for hospital and lab environments - with PMs experienced on healthcare-spec projects hardest to find.
What do floor layers earn in San Antonio?
BLS puts the San Antonio median for floor layers at $38,870 a year, 31% below the $56,460 national median. That ranks 54th of 56 metros with published figures, in the bottom quarter. Most of the market sits between $31,840 and $54,910, a 1.7x gap and a moderate spread, so a few thousand dollars over the median buys real experience. Within Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth pays more, at $43,950.
Is it hard to hire floor layers in San Antonio?
Yes. San Antonio has 49% fewer floor layers per job than the country as a whole, roughly 90 in the metro, so most of the people worth hiring are already employed. With 10% more of those firms than in 2018, more employers are competing for the same crews.
Which commercial flooring roles pay the most in San Antonio?
Of the roles we recruit for, Flooring Foreman pays the most in San Antonio, a $73,520 median (BLS measures that occupation across all industries in the metro). Among field roles the top earner is Tile and Stone Setter at $44,690, 39% below it. Floor Layer is the lowest-paid field role at $38,870. Floor Layer trails national pay the most (31% below).
How many nonresidential flooring contractors operate in San Antonio?
BLS counted 22 nonresidential flooring contractors in San Antonio in 2023. Up from 20 in 2018, a 10% increase against 7% growth nationally. BLS withholds their combined headcount and pay here, which it does when a category is small enough that the figures could identify individual employers.
Which nearby metros compete with San Antonio for floor layers?
The closest metros we cover with published figures are Houston (190 miles, about 380, $43,020 median) and Dallas-Fort Worth (253 miles, about 380, $43,950 median). Houston has the larger pool, so it is the first place to look for senior people willing to move. Houston pays 11% more, which is where San Antonio employers tend to lose people.
We have not closed a commercial flooring search in San Antonio yet. Here is what we have closed.
These are other trades in the same market. We would rather show you the searches we have actually run in San Antonio than imply a record in this trade that we do not have yet.
- Estimator / Project ManagerShe grew her own asphalt repair business from $600K to $2.5 million before taking this seat.
- Estimator / Project ManagerAn 80% win rate on bids from $100,000 to $2 million, brought onto the same bid desk.
Hiring commercial flooring talent in San Antonio?
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