Concrete Cost Calculator for Arkansas - Free 2026 Cost Estimates

Arkansas Concrete Labor Costs — Verified from BLS OEWS (2025)

Every figure on this page is a published U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics value. Last verified 2026-06-20.

In Arkansas, cement masons & concrete finishers — the core trade for concrete work — earn a mean wage of $21.97/hr ($45,700 per year) in the 2025 BLS OEWS release. That is 24% below the national average (national mean $60,050 per year). Arkansas employs about 1,900 cement masons & concrete finishers statewide. Related trades that price into a typical concrete job include construction laborers ($39,250/yr), carpenters ($51,350/yr), first-line supervisors of construction trades ($65,690/yr). Because labor is the largest variable cost on most concrete projects, these published state wage levels are the biggest single reason concrete costs differ between Arkansas and other states. Every figure here is a mean value published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and is refreshed automatically when BLS releases new OEWS data.

Across the trades that touch a typical concrete job in Arkansas, BLS reports mean wages of cement masons & concrete finishers at $45,700 per year ($21.97/hr); construction laborers at $39,250 per year ($18.87/hr); carpenters at $51,350 per year ($24.69/hr); first-line supervisors of construction trades at $65,690 per year ($31.58/hr). The spread between first-line supervisors of construction trades ($65,690) and construction laborers ($39,250) reflects differences in skill, certification, and supervisory responsibility on Arkansas job sites, and it is why a detailed, line-item estimate beats a single blended rate when you are budgeting concrete work.

Half of Arkansas cement masons & concrete finishers earn less than the median of $46,230 per year — above the $45,700 mean, which a smaller number of higher earners pulls upward. For budgeting, the median is often the more realistic figure for routine concrete crews. BLS counts roughly 1,900 cement masons & concrete finishers, 10,650 construction laborers, 4,030 carpenters, 6,590 first-line supervisors of construction trades employed across Arkansas, a measure of how deep the local concrete-trade labor pool is and how much competition for crews you can expect when scheduling work.

When you budget a concrete job in Arkansas, treat these BLS wage levels as the labor-rate floor: a crew's billed rate adds overhead, insurance, equipment, and margin on top of the $21.97/hr mean wage shown above. Because Arkansas's cement masons & concrete finishers wages sit 24% below the national average, a concrete quote that comes in far below these published rates is worth a second look — labor that cheap usually signals a different scope, materials, or crew experience. Use the calculator on this page to combine these Arkansas labor rates with your project's material quantities for a complete estimate.

Wages are statewide means published by BLS and reflect labor cost only — not the total installed cost of a project. Use the calculator below for a full materials-and-labor estimate, and always obtain written bids from licensed Arkansas contractors.