SOC 49-9045 · Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations · May 2025

How much do Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons make in Birmingham, AL?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons in Birmingham, AL is $49,260. The 10th percentile is $38,090 and the 90th percentile is $56,250. Employment is 50.

Median annual wage

$49,260

10th percentile
$38,090
25th percentile
$38,310
Median
$49,260
75th percentile
$56,250
90th percentile
$56,250
Mean
$50,250

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Cooks in a Washington state kitchen, 1930. Seattle Municipal Archives. Photograph by Seattle Municipal Archives. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Percentile spread

For Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons, the published 10th percentile is $38,090 and the 90th percentile is $56,250. The difference is $18,160, which is 36.9% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $38,310 to the 75th at $56,250, covers $17,940.

The mean annual wage is $50,250, which sits above the median of $49,260. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Birmingham, AL median is 19.6% lower than the national median of $61,290 for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons. In 2024 national prices the local median is $53,751, which is 12.3% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 3.4% higher than the Alabama median of $47,650.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Birmingham, AL is 91.644, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $49,260 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons at $53,751 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Birmingham, AL (50 of 520,290). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (1,080 of 155,495,730). The local share is 13.84 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Birmingham, AL · Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons make in Birmingham, AL?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons in Birmingham, AL is $49,260. The 10th percentile is $38,090 and the 90th percentile is $56,250. Employment is 50.

How does that compare with the national median for Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons?

The local median is 19.6% lower than the national median of $61,290.

What is Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons pay in Birmingham, AL after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Birmingham, AL is 91.644, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $49,260 is $53,751. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.