Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles

Overview

Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles has a national median salary of $56,460 per year, with +9% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists no formal educational credential as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

Apply blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative coverings to floors.

Work Values

• Support
• Independence
• Working Conditions

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Cut covering and foundation materials, according to blueprints and sketches.
• Trim excess covering materials, tack edges, and join sections of covering material to form tight joint.
• Cut flooring material to fit around obstructions.
• Roll and press sheet wall and floor covering into cement base to smooth and finish surface, using hand roller.
• Lay out, position, and apply shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative coverings to floors, walls, and cabinets, following guidelines to keep courses straight and create designs.

Work Activities

• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Getting Information
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Scheduling Work and Activities
• Processing Information
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Communicating with People Outside the Organization

Detailed Work Activities

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists no formal educational credential as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished a bachelor's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Bachelor's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for no formal educational credential.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles:

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