SALARY · CONSTRUCTION LABORERS · ALABAMA

Construction Laborers salary in Alabama

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For construction laborers in Alabama, BLS put the median at $36,900 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$36,900

$18 per hour at the median · That is $10,220 (21.7 percent) below the national median of $47,120 for this occupation.

$37,910Mean annual salary
$18Mean hourly wage
$18,400People employed in this job in Alabama

Salary range

25th: $29,960Median: $36,90075th: $45,240
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$29,960
Median (50th percentile)$36,900
75th percentile$45,240
Mean$37,910

The middle half of workers earned from $29,960 to $45,240 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$30,337 a year
$2,528 a month
Federal tax $2,248 · FICA $2,823 · State tax $1,493

Caveat: the Alabama 2026 Form 40 return instruction booklet was not retrieved as a single document. Brackets, standard deduction table and federal tax deduction rest on the 2026 Form 40ES worksheet and statute.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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