Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters

Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

AI Resistance Index 52 of 99

In the middle of the pack: more resilient than 52% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very low (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it low), and US jobs are projected to change by -11.7% by 2035, expected to shrink. The work leans on physical dexterity.

AI struggles with much of this work. Hiring is expected to grow slower than average, or to shrink.

Median pay (2025): $47,550
Job growth to 2035: -11.7%
Openings a year: 1,100
People doing it (2025): 14,100
Usual route in: No formal credential, then short on-the-job training

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Where people already use AI for this work

Prepare mixtures or solutions
Determine operational methods or procedures

From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).

Work AI rarely helps with

Perform general construction or extraction activities
Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas
Dispose of waste or debris

What the work looks like

Mix mortar, plaster, and grout, manually or using machines, according to standard formulas.
Cut materials to specified sizes for installation, using power saws or tile cutters.
Erect scaffolding or other installation structures.
Locate and supply materials to masons for installation, following drawings or numbered sequences.
Clean installation surfaces, equipment, tools, work sites, or storage areas, using water, chemical solutions, oxygen lances, or polishing machines.

From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.

What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects

Fewer of these jobs, as the increasing use of offsite manufactured prefabricated panels instead of onsite smaller bricks reduces the number of these helpers needed onsite to install.
More of these jobs, as more brick veneer work is prepared offsite and panels are shipped from factories.

Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook

Helpers--roofersHuman edge, steady, Index 74, -0.1%
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleanersHuman edge, growing, Index 93, +7.8%
PaperhangersHuman edge, growing, Index 86, +4.3%
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tendersHuman edge, steady, Index 65, +1.5%

Also known as: Bricklayer Helper, Hod Carrier, Mason Assistant, Mason Tender, Bricklayer Apprentice, Helper, Marble Helper, Mason Apprentice.

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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.