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What bricklayers make

Journeyperson

$83,000

1st-year apprentice

$54,000

Union or restoration

$101,000

Job Bank's median for bricklayers is about $40 an hour, or $83,000 a year at full-time hours. Members of BAC (the bricklayers' union) on commercial and institutional sites earn at the top. Skilled restoration masons and stone masons can charge more again.