$75,610estimated top of the range · middle $40,000 / yr
AI augments this role
Gutter Installers in the United States earn a median of $40,000 a year. Pay starts near $28,000. The top of the range is estimated at $75,610. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for this exact title, so this figure is derived from the closest occupation it does track and is labelled an estimate.
Source: PayCrunch estimate. Last checked 9 September 2026.
Entry level
$28,000
Top-end estimate
$75,610
Education
High school diploma
Wages — PayCrunch estimate. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for Gutter Installer; figures are derived from the closest occupation it does track and are labelled as estimates. AI-impact rating is PayCrunch's editorial assessment. Updated September 2026.
🆕 New & Trending AI Tools for Gutter InstallerReviewed September 2026
We track new AI-tool launches every week and refresh this list — here’s what’s gaining traction for Gutter Installer work right now.
Housecall Pro AINEWPaid / see site
Field-service software with AI inbox, review timing, and estimate assist used by residential service shops.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: draft customer replies, build a line-item quote, and keep the book of service calls moving
Workiz AINEWPaid / see site
Field-service software with an AI receptionist that answers and books calls.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: never miss a job call — AI answers, quotes, and schedules while you are on site
HandoffNEWPaid / see site
AI estimating that turns a scope into a priced proposal.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: turn an install or replacement scope into a priced proposal in minutes
NotebookLMNEWFree / $7.99 mo
Google tool that answers questions grounded only in the documents you give it — with citations.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: load your own manuals, policies, or PDFs and ask questions that stay accurate to the source
ChatGPTFree / $20 mo
AI assistant for work orders, specs, and field troubleshooting in plain language.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: draft a work order, price a service call, or reason through a diagnosis from a photo — then confirm on site
ServiceTitan Titan IntelligenceQuote-based
AI across dispatch, flat-rate pricebook, and follow-up for home-service trades.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: route jobs, price from a service pricebook, and follow up automatically
JobberPaid / see site
Field-service platform with AI assist for quoting, scheduling, and invoicing mobile jobs.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: price and schedule a mobile install or repair and send a clean invoice from the truck
ClaudeFree / $20 mo
AI assistant known for careful writing, long-document analysis, and coding.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: analyze big reports or spreadsheets and turn messy notes into clean, finished writing
Google GeminiFree / $20 mo
Google's AI assistant, built into Gmail, Docs, and Search.
How a Gutter Installer uses it: draft and reply inside Google Workspace and research without leaving the page
A house with stained siding under the eaves usually needs more than a cleaning. A gutter installer hangs a new system: runs, corners, and downspouts that carry water off the roof and away from the foundation. Many crews form seamless lengths on a machine in the truck. Others set sectional pieces the supplier delivered. Either way, you are building a system that was not on the house this morning, or replacing one that has failed. Cleaning debris out of an old trough is a different day's work.
A coil of metal and a house that needs a system
The visit starts with a look and a measure, before anyone commits metal to the wall. You walk the building with the salesperson's notes or with the homeowner, and you confirm where water should leave the site. You note the runs, the corners, the stories, and the obstacles: a deck, a power line nearby, a porch roof, a place where a downspout would land in a walkway. The lead decides the layout the company will actually build. Your job as a newer installer is to measure carefully, to call out what the notes missed, and to keep the customer informed without promising a detail the lead has not approved.
Then the crew builds. On a seamless crew, the machine on the truck forms the length, and the team hangs it, sets the corners, and ties in the downspouts. On a sectional crew, you stage pieces, join them the way the company specifies, and hang the runs. Either method ends with water that has a path off the roof and a customer who can see what they bought. You protect landscaping, you pick up scraps, and you walk the job with the owner before you leave. A pretty run that dumps onto the front step is not a finished job. The finish is the path of the water, explained in a sentence the owner can repeat.
New construction is a cousin of the replacement job. You may be one trade among many, waiting on roofers or waiting on siding, and the superintendent of the site sets the order. Replacement work on an occupied house is more conversation and more care for beds and paint. Both demand the same habit: the layout on the paperwork matches the metal on the building. If they disagree, you stop and you ask. Installers who "make it work" in silence create callbacks. Installers who flag a conflict early get trusted with the next street of houses.
Installation is its own trade
Cleaning and installing share a word and not a week. A cleaner services gutters that already exist, pulling out debris and reporting damage. An installer puts new material on the building. The tools differ. The sales conversation differs. The pay estimate differs, and it should, because the skill and the liability differ. Some companies employ both crews. If you are hired there, ask which truck is yours. A summer of hanging metal teaches you installation. A fall of clearing leaves teaches you cleaning. Doing one does not automatically make you the other, and a posting should not blur them to fill a schedule.
You will work above the ground for much of the day. The company is responsible for training you on how it wants that done, including whatever gear and setup it uses. Follow the lead. Do not collect methods from strangers and try them on a customer's house. This description stays with the career: the measure, the crew, the kind of company, and the pay. The physical method belongs to the people who employ you and who carry the insurance if something goes wrong. A new hire who announces a better way on day one is a risk. A new hire who can measure twice and wait for the lead's layout is an asset.
A build, separate from a cleaning visit
Installers hang new gutter systems. Cleaners remove debris from systems already in place. Treat the posting, the truck, and the pay talk as belonging to one of those jobs.
Learning the crew's way
There is no national licence that titles you a gutter installer. You learn on a crew. The first weeks are material handling, site protection, and measuring while someone else checks you. Later you form or stage pieces, hang runs under supervision, and talk to the homeowner about what the day will include. A driver's licence matters if you will move the truck or the trailer. Some companies want you comfortable with the machine that forms seamless lengths, and they will sign you off themselves. That sign-off is employer training. It is a company permission, not a state craft licence you can wave at the next firm without a new introduction.
Pay attention to how the company wants a job sold versus how it wants a job built. Salespeople sometimes promise a downspout location that the crew cannot honor once they see the grade. Your loyalty is to a finished system that works, and to a conversation that fixes the promise before the metal is up. Learn the words the lead uses with customers so you do not contradict the price or the warranty. Warranties are the company's promise. Do not extend them from the rung you are standing on. If a customer asks for something off the work order, write it down and let the person who prices jobs answer.
Quality is visible. Straight runs, corners that meet, downspouts that land where the water can leave, and a site that does not look like a factory exploded. You also learn the failures: a run with no fall in the right direction, a fastener pattern the company rejects, a color that does not match the order. The lead will show you what "redo" means. Take the redo without a speech. Installers who can see a mistake and fix it before the customer does are the ones who stop being the newest person on the crew.
Home-service firms and exterior contractors
Home-service companies sell replacement gutters to homeowners and run crews out of a yard full of coils and trucks. The pace follows the sales board. A full board means long days. A quiet board means you might be sent to punch-list old jobs or to help another exterior crew. Exterior contractors and roofing companies sometimes keep an install crew in house so the gutter goes on when the roof does. New-home builders hire crews by the subdivision. Each setting has a different boss. The home-service boss cares about reviews and callbacks. The builder's superintendent cares about schedule and whether you are in the next trade's way. Know which one you are talking to.
Hiring is practical. Crews want people who can be outside all day, who will follow a layout, and who will not vanish at lunch. Experience on roofs, siding, or another exterior trade helps you understand a job site. It does not replace the company's own sign-off. In the interview, describe a time you measured carefully and a time you stopped because the plan did not match the building. Ask how many installs a crew finishes in a normal day, who runs the machine, and how callbacks are handled. Ask whether winter is installs, repairs, or a layoff. Ask if cleaners and installers are the same people. If they are, ask how the company separates a service call from a replacement so your pay matches the work.
References from a lead who saw you hang work are stronger than a list of tools you have touched. If you are new, say so and ask for the helper seat explicitly. Owners respect that more than a borrowed story about running a crew. Bring a licence if driving is part of the posting. Wear clothes you can work in if they offer a ride-along. The ride-along is the real interview. Leave the site as tidy as the lead does.
Helper, hanger, crew lead
Helpers haul, protect the yard, and learn the names of the pieces. People trusted to hang the work run the layout the lead approved and keep the customer posted. A crew lead orders the day, checks the finish, and is the person the office calls when a salesperson overpromised. Moving up means your layouts match what the company can warranty and your callbacks are rare. Document the jobs you led. When you ask for lead pay, bring that list. Doing the lead's decisions on a helper's wage is how installers get stuck. The title and the pay should move together.
Some leads later run a yard: scheduling crews, ordering coils, and standing behind the warranty. Some open a company. Ownership adds the truck payments, the insurance, the sales pipeline, and the hiring. The metal work can shrink to the jobs you still want to see yourself. The failure mode is an owner who sells faster than the crews can hang, until callbacks become the whole week. If you go that way, keep one crew whose finish you would put your name on, and price the work so that crew can take the time the finish requires. A smaller book of clean installs beats a large book of returns.
Callbacks tell you whether the crew is actually good. A leak at a corner, a downspout that landed in a walkway, or a color that does not match the order will come back to the yard, and someone has to return. Crews that treat the return as an embarrassment to hide will see the same mistake again. Crews that treat it as information, and that let the installer who hung the run come back and see it, get better. If you are asking to be paid as more than a helper, a short history of clean finishes and honest returns is the story to tell. It shows judgment, which is what a lead is for.
PayCrunch estimates for installers
Installers do not have a Bureau wage series of their own. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for this exact title, and the figures that follow are PayCrunch estimates. They are not Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for gutter installers, and no state median sits beside them. Entry is $28,000. The median estimate is $40,000. The gap from entry to the median is $12,000. The estimated top is $75,610. The gap from the median to that estimated top is $35,610. A sentence that ties any of these dollars to a state is adding geography the estimates do not include.
Ask where the offer sits
Get the offer in yearly terms, even when the crew talks in day rates. An offer near $28,000 is the entry estimate, the right neighborhood for a helper still learning to measure and to hang under a lead. If you already form or stage material, talk with homeowners, and finish runs the lead does not have to redo, name the $12,000 between $28,000 and the median estimate of $40,000. Ask which of those skills the company is still treating as entry. An offer near $40,000 is the middle of the estimate. Ask what crew-lead duty, machine sign-off, or a truck you are responsible for does to the number.
Use $75,610 as the estimated top only. The $35,610 between the median and that top is the spread for people who lead crews, run a yard, or carry a book of installs the company can warranty. It is a poor figure to quote on your first summer unless you already have that responsibility and can show it. Callbacks, winter hours, gear, and whether pay is salary or production all change the meaning of the base. Put them on the table. Then match the offer to $28,000, $40,000, or $75,610. Leave state comparisons out. The Bureau does not publish a separate series for this title, so a local median is not hiding in these PayCrunch estimates.
The top of Gutter Installer pay — and how to get there with AI
$75,610top-end estimate for Gutter Installer
PayCrunch estimate - derived from the closest occupation BLS tracks (Roofers, 47-2181). This figure is PayCrunch’s estimate, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics published wage for this exact title.
And the role it leads to — Terrazzo Workers and Finishers — reaches $126,130 nationally.
$28,000entry$40,000middle$75,610top end
A gutter installer moves up this range by being the person who learns each new estimating or measurement tool first, uses it on real jobs, and then teaches the rest of the crew.
Roofing and gutter companies buy software and then leave it to rot. A takeoff package such as AppliCad Roof Wizard or a scheduling system like Insight Direct ServiceCEO gets purchased, two people half-learn it, and estimates carry on being scrawled on the back of a measurement sheet. Estimating the materials and labour required to complete a job is already listed in this trade's work; being the one who does it accurately, inside the tool the office paid for, and who then shows three other installers how, is what moves somebody off the truck. Have a model teach you the vocabulary and draft the one-page instructions your crew will actually read.
Your playbook, by where you are now
Just startingLearn the water, not just the metal
Understand where water goes: pitch, valleys, drip edge, and how flashing gets cut to the angles formed by walls, vents and intersecting roof surfaces.
Learn to inspect a problem roof and state what the repair procedure should be before somebody tells you.
Measure and record every run you hang, then compare your material take against what was ordered.
Keep the crew's material shortfalls in Microsoft Excel for a season, because that list is your first estimating lesson.
What proves it: A season of measured runs with your own material estimates set against actual use.
Realistic span: the first year
A few years inOwn the tool the office bought
Learn AppliCad Roof Wizard properly rather than partly, and do the takeoffs for jobs you will install yourself.
Write a one-page guide to the estimating tool and hand it round; it will be the only documentation the shop has.
Take charge of scheduling in Insight Direct ServiceCEO so job sequencing and callbacks stop living on a whiteboard.
Run the short training session whenever a new tool or product arrives, so learning things first becomes your role.
Get the waterproofing and single-ply membrane work under your belt, since that is the better-paid end of what this crew gets asked for.
What proves it: Estimates you produced in the shop's own software that the office used without redoing them.
Realistic span: years two to five
ExperiencedEstimate, train, then lead
Price whole jobs — material, labour, access, disposal — and be accountable for whether they made money.
Write a repair-procedure standard so a problem roof gets the same diagnosis whoever climbs up to look at it.
Bring new tools into the company yourself: trial one on a single job, report honestly, train everyone only if it earns its place.
Take responsibility for ladder, harness and edge-protection training, and document each session with names and dates.
Illinois pays this roofing work more than any other state, and a contractor's licence is what turns crew-lead pay into owner pay.
What proves it: A year of jobs you estimated and a training routine the company kept running.
Realistic span: six years onward
The next 90 days
Ask the office for access to whatever takeoff software they own and spend ninety days shadow-estimating. Before each job you are sent to, build your own material and labour estimate in the tool: linear feet of gutter, downspouts, hangers, flashing to be cut at every wall and vent intersection, sealant, hours and access. Hang the job, then compare your estimate to what actually got used and how long it took. Fifteen jobs in you will be more accurate than the person guessing from a photograph. Write down how you did it, hand it to the two installers most likely to use it, and offer to walk the crew through the tool. Nobody else in that company wants that job, and it leads to the desk.
Wage figures: PayCrunch estimate. The playbook is PayCrunch editorial guidance, not a guarantee of pay or placement.
Every figure is the national median from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS) shown on that role’s own page.
Never used AI before? Start here (2 minutes).
Start with an aerial-measurement tool. Services like Hover and EagleView turn photos (or a customer's address) into accurate roofline and gutter measurements, so you can price a job without a dangerous first climb and quote before a competitor drives out. Pair it with ChatGPT to convert the numbers into an itemized, upsell-ready estimate.
For the business, use a field-service app like Jobber for quotes, scheduling, and automated review requests, and ChatGPT or Perplexity for marketing copy and drainage know-how. Keep customer data in the app; use consumer AI for math, copy, and pitch scripts.
The one rule, forever: Gutter work is height-and-ladder work, and falls are the leading killer in this trade; no AI schedule is worth climbing onto a wet roof or an unstable ladder to hit a slot. Follow OSHA ladder and fall-protection rules on every job. AI can estimate a roofline, but you verify the measurement, the pitch, and the anchor points in person before anyone goes up.
The plays — exact steps, exact prompts
Do these in order. Each one is copy-paste ready. You do not need to know anything about AI going in.
1
Measure any roofline without climbing, then quote same day
Why this pays: Accurate linear-foot and downspout counts protect margin and let you quote instantly. Faster, safer, more precise quoting wins more jobs at the right price, the foundation of owner income.
HoverEagleViewChatGPT
1
Order an aerial measurement from Hover or EagleView (or measure roof edges in Google Earth for a ballpark) to get gutter linear feet, corners, and stories.
2
Convert the measurement into a priced, itemized estimate.
Copy-paste this prompt
I'm quoting seamless 6-inch aluminum gutters: [220 linear feet], [8 inside/outside corners], [6 downspouts], [2-story]. Build a material takeoff (gutter coil, downspout, elbows, hangers, sealant, splash blocks) with 10% waste, and lay it out as a clean customer estimate with separate material and labor lines. I'll enter my pricing.
Confirm counts and story height on-site; access difficulty and fascia condition change labor time.
3
Send the quote same-day from Jobber; in gutters, the first professional quote usually wins.
What you'll haveInstant, accurate quotes with no risky first climb, more jobs at protected margins.
2
Sell the gutter-guard upsell with numbers that close
Why this pays: Gutter guards are the highest-margin product in the trade and can double a ticket. A clear ROI pitch (no more cleaning, no ladder risk, warranty) converts more customers, the single biggest revenue lever for a gutter business.
ChatGPTCompanyCamCanva
1
Photograph clogged and overflowing gutters on-site with CompanyCam to show the problem, then present the guard as the fix.
2
Generate a plain-English ROI pitch and objection handlers.
Copy-paste this prompt
Write a short, persuasive gutter-guard pitch a homeowner will actually believe. Cover: cost of annual cleaning vs. one-time guard cost, ladder-fall risk avoided, water damage and foundation protection, and the warranty. Then give me responses to the top 3 objections: too expensive, I'll just clean them myself, and do they really work? Honest, no hype.
Match the guard type to the customer's trees and roof; overselling a guard that clogs with pine needles kills your reviews.
3
Build a one-page Canva comparison (no guard vs. guard) with the photos and warranty to leave behind.
What you'll haveA higher attach rate on guards, the high-margin add-on that lifts revenue per job.
3
Ride storm season with targeted, fast outreach
Why this pays: Storms create sudden, concentrated demand for gutter repair and replacement. Being first into the affected neighborhoods with the right message captures a wave of jobs competitors miss, seasonal surges that pad annual income.
ChatGPTGoogle Business ProfileCanva
1
After a storm, use ChatGPT to write neighborhood-specific outreach (door hangers, texts, Nextdoor and Facebook posts) about storm gutter damage and free inspections.
2
Draft a rapid-response campaign.
Copy-paste this prompt
Write a set of storm-response marketing pieces for a gutter company after [hail/high winds] hit [neighborhood/city]: a door-hanger headline and body, a Facebook/Nextdoor post, and a follow-up text for people who requested an inspection. Emphasize free inspection, insurance-claim help, and fast scheduling. Trustworthy, not stormchaser-sleazy.
Never exaggerate damage or push unnecessary insurance claims; reputation is everything in a tight-knit neighborhood.
3
Keep your Google Business Profile updated with storm-response availability so you show up for urgent searches.
What you'll haveA fast, credible response that captures storm-driven demand, concentrated jobs that boost the season.
4
Build roofer and contractor referral partnerships
Why this pays: Roofers, remodelers, and gutter-cleaning companies constantly meet customers who need gutters but don't install them. A referral pipeline delivers pre-sold jobs with zero ad spend, the steady feed behind top-of-range volume.
ChatGPTClaudeJobber
1
Use AI to draft a partner pitch and referral agreement for local roofers and general contractors.
Copy-paste this prompt
Draft a short partnership pitch from my seamless-gutter company to local roofing contractors, proposing a referral arrangement where I handle their customers' gutter installs. Include what's in it for them (one-stop service for their clients, a referral fee or reciprocal referrals), plus a simple one-page agreement outline. Professional and concrete.
Keep referral fees legal and disclosed per your state's contractor rules, and put terms in writing.
2
Create a simple co-branded flyer and an outreach list of every roofer and remodeler in your area; follow up on a schedule.
What you'll haveA network of contractors sending you pre-sold gutter jobs, reliable volume without marketing spend.
5
Rank locally and turn every job into reviews and referrals
Why this pays: 'Gutter installation near me' is a high-intent local search. Ranking there plus a wall of reviews turns your profile into a lead source that compounds, the cheapest customer acquisition an owner has.
ChatGPTGoogle Business ProfileJobber
1
Have ChatGPT write your Google Business Profile description and separate service pages (seamless gutters, guards, repair, commercial).
2
Automate the review ask.
Copy-paste this prompt
Write 4 short SMS templates asking a happy gutter customer for a Google review, varied by job: new seamless install, gutter-guard install, storm repair, and commercial job. Friendly, under 300 characters, with a [review link] placeholder.
Only ask satisfied customers, and never buy or fake reviews; Google delists for it and word travels locally.
3
Set Jobber to send a review request automatically after each completed install.
What you'll haveTop local ranking and a steady review flow, inbound leads that fill the schedule for free.
Your 12-month sequence to the top of the range
How the plays above stack into a path from median pay toward the $58,000 tier.
Month 1
Start every quote from an aerial measurement (Hover or EagleView) and send same-day itemized estimates. Add gutter guards as a line item on every bid.
Months 2-3
Sharpen the gutter-guard ROI pitch and build out your Google Business Profile with automated review requests.
Months 3-6
Set up storm-response campaigns and sign referral partnerships with local roofers and remodelers.
Months 6-12
Add commercial and repair lines, refine pricing, and add a crew to handle storm-season volume past the solo top end.
Gear for this job
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Same live Pearson 2024 CM practice text already on construction-manager / construction-foreman / construction-superintendent / general-contractor / tile-setter / overhead-tile-installer / demolition-worker / flooring-installer / plasterer / demolition-supervisor / fence-installer / kitchen-remodeler / waterproofing-specialist / foundation-repair-specialist / handyman (ASIN 013534493X). This leftover page is BLS Roofers (SOC 47-2181); play 1 is Measure any roofline without climbing; start-here is Start with an aerial-measurement tool; Month 1 is Start every quote from an aerial measurement (Hover or EagleView) and send same-day itemized estimates. CM practice text for leftover measure / quote / estimate / bid work — not leftover Procore as a dump and not leftover 2024 IBC as the lead. Confirm 013534493X. Live page HTTP 200, no PC_GEAR / amazon.com/dp / tag=paycrunch-20 at 2026-09-18 2:10 AM PT. Source page: waterproofing-specialist.
Next steps for a Gutter Installer
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Gutter Installer work is specific enough that a stamped 'check out these courses' block would be noise. BLS files this work as Roofers (SOC 47-2181). O*NET Job Zone 2 is typical: a high-school diploma plus short vocational training, so the honest next credential is a short certificate or vocational program — not a random catalog dump.
The occupation's listed knowledge area is Building and Construction, which is what the course searches below actually query.
Gutter Installers in this dataset list Microsoft Windows among the tools in use, so a program that names that stack is a better fit than a survey course.
Coursera search for building and construction — a short certificate or vocational program that lines up with construction, not a generic professional-development aisle.
Write a Gutter Installer resume, or one aimed at Terrazzo Workers and Finishers, instead of a blank template. Resume Now is a resume builder; we are not claiming a counted template set for this SOC.
A Gutter Installer resume that names the actual tasks on this page, or the step-up title Terrazzo Workers and Finishers, beats a blank template when you apply.
What Gutter Installers earn by state
This page does not show a state table, and the reason is worth stating: the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a separate wage series for this job title, so there are no official state figures to show. Scaling the national median by a cost-of-living index would produce a number for every state, but it would be an estimate of living costs wearing a wage’s clothes, and PayCrunch would rather show you nothing than that.
What the national figures say: pay starts near $28,000, the median is $40,000, and the top of the range is $75,610. Those national figures are a PayCrunch estimate, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics published wage for this exact title.
No. Running a seamless machine, hanging a straight run on a ladder, setting the right pitch, and managing fascia and drainage are physical, on-the-roof skills. AI replaces the measuring, estimating, and marketing that eat a small operator's time. Installers who use it quote faster and sell more guards; the install itself is all you.
Can I really quote off an aerial measurement?
Yes for the bid, but verify before you build. Hover and EagleView are accurate enough to price and plan safely without a first climb, which also keeps you off a ladder unnecessarily. Confirm story height, access, and fascia condition on-site, because those drive labor even when the linear footage is right.
How do I use AI without sounding like a stormchaser?
Keep it honest. Use AI to write fast, clear storm-response outreach, but never exaggerate damage, invent problems, or push unnecessary insurance claims. In a neighborhood, one dishonest pitch tanks your reputation. Free inspection, real findings, fast scheduling, that's the credible message AI should write for you.
How does AI actually make a gutter installer more money?
Three ways: faster accurate quotes win more jobs, the AI-scripted gutter-guard pitch raises your attach rate on the highest-margin product, and AI-drafted outreach captures storm demand and roofer referrals. More jobs at bigger tickets with cheaper leads, that's the path from $40,000 to the top of the band.
Is gutter installing safe enough to build a business on?
It's a solid trade with steady demand, but falls are the real risk, so never let AI-driven scheduling rush you onto a wet roof or a bad ladder set. Use aerial tools to minimize unnecessary climbs, follow OSHA fall-protection rules, and price the danger into the job. Safety discipline is part of running it profitably.
Methodology & sources
Salary (median, 10th, top of the range) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS.
By state — the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own state medians, limited to states employing at least 500 people in the occupation. No cost-of-living arithmetic is applied to a wage anywhere on this page.
The plays — PayCrunch's own step-by-step guidance using publicly available AI tools. Tool names/URLs are real and current as of August 2026; prompts written to work as-is. Verify any professional output before relying on it.