At a masonry-contracting firm, you handle the administrative operations behind masonry construction — supporting project administration, materials and supplies coordination, payroll and certified-payroll work, and the operational paperwork masonry contracting generates.
Masonry-admin work runs across project paperwork, materials coordination, and operational support — processing project-related paperwork, supporting materials orders and deliveries, handling certified-payroll work on prevailing-wage projects, fielding field-team and customer questions. Paperwork timeliness and operational support quality anchor the operating measures.
The harder part is often the certified-payroll-and-prevailing-wage complexity — public-works masonry projects run under Davis-Bacon and state prevailing-wage rules with detailed payroll-reporting requirements, and admins carry the working knowledge of the rules. Variance across employers shapes the role: small masonry contractors run admin work with broad scope per admin; larger contractors run with structured admin teams; specialty masonry operations (restoration, commercial, residential) run within sector-specific frameworks.
It fits people organized with construction-administrative work, comfortable with prevailing-wage rules, and warm with field crews and customers. CCM and construction-administration credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the multi-project paperwork volume — masonry contractors run multiple projects simultaneously, and admins handle the paperwork across all of them.
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View all Construction roles →At a masonry-contracting firm, you handle the administrative operations behind masonry construction — supporting project administration, materials and supplies coordination, payroll and certified-payroll work, and the operational paperwork masonry contracting generates.
Median pay for a Masonry Contractor Administrator (Masonry Construction Admin) is about $107K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $65K to $177K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Judgment and Decision Making, Management of Personnel Resources, Active Listening, Time Management, and Coordination.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 8.7% through 2034, with roughly 348,330 people working in it today (BLS).
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