Career Overview
Applies plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings. Applies or mounts acoustical tiles or blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing materials to ceilings and walls of buildings to reduce or reflect sound. Materials may be of decorative quality.
Skills and Abilities
- Following construction blueprints and plans
- Following written construction work orders
- Making large fixed structures and objects
- Using construction hand and power tools
- Working as a member of a construction team
AVERAGE SALARY
- $46,620 (annually)
- $22.41 (hourly)
Salary Ranges (entry level > experienced)
- $35,129 - $61,810 (annually)
- $16.89 - $29.71 (hourly)
*SOURCE: Occupational Employment Statistics Program, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for Colorado, from May 2018. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
* Entry Level wage rates based on the average of the lower 1/3 of the wage distribution. Experienced wage rates based on the average of the top 10% of the wage distribution.
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