Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters

Overview

Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters has a national median salary of $47,550 per year, with -11.7% 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

Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Work Values

• Support
• Relationships
• Working Conditions

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Mix mortar, plaster, and grout, manually or using machines, according to standard formulas.
• Cut materials to specified sizes for installation, using power saws or tile cutters.
• Erect scaffolding or other installation structures.
• Locate and supply materials to masons for installation, following drawings or numbered sequences.
• Clean installation surfaces, equipment, tools, work sites, or storage areas, using water, chemical solutions, oxygen lances, or polishing machines.

Work Activities

• Handling and Moving Objects
• Getting Information
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
• Controlling Machines and Processes
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

Detailed Work Activities

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• 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.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

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 an associate's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Associate's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for no formal educational credential.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters:

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