Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers

Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers pays a median $41,600 against $50,020 across all occupations — $4.04 an hour of difference. At that distance the deciding variable is where you do it, not how long you have done it.

Employment as Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers stands at 7,940. That is small enough that your local market may have a dozen posts in total; mobility will matter more to your earnings than seniority does.

This work suits people who can hold quality steady through repetition, which is a real skill and one that machines have not entirely taken.

How long it takes to become one of the 7,940 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

Between $37,030 and $50,360 there is $13,330, a ratio of 1.4x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.

A quarter of the field earns under $37,030 — $12,990 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.

Avoid it if you would be unable to move should the plant close, or if repetitive work would grind you down.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 7,940 figure counts people already working as Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

$37,030 to $50,360 is a 1.4x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.

In cash terms the middle half of Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers runs $37,030 to $50,360 — $13,330 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $41,600.

The 75th percentile is $50,360. Reaching it from the $41,600 midpoint is $8,760 a year; reaching it from the $37,030 that the bottom quarter of Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers earn is $13,330.

The upper half of the middle range — $41,600 to $50,360, or $8,760 — is far longer than the lower half at $4,570. In a shape like this an average would flatter Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers considerably, and would describe nobody.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $20.00 at the midpoint for Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers, $17.80 at the 25th percentile and $24.21 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.