Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers

Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers pays $37,800 where the typical American job pays $50,020 — $12,220 a year short, or $5.87 an hour. That is a liveable wage in a cheap state and a difficult one in an expensive city, and nothing about the national figure tells you which you would be in.

With 7,450 employed nationally, Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers is a small occupation. Small occupations are quiet: few postings, slow turnover, and a real chance that the person you would replace is not going anywhere.

These roles suit people with real speed and hand accuracy who want piece work they can see the result of, in a domestic industry much smaller than it once was.

We carry no verified training length for Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter of Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers earn under $31,270 and a quarter over $45,670 — 1.5x, or $14,400 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.

The bottom quarter is under $31,270, $18,750 short of the $50,020 typical American job. The question worth answering before entering Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers is how long people spend in that quarter, because the median says nothing about it.

Avoid it if you need a growing industry; domestic production in this category has been shrinking for decades.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 7,450 figure counts people already working as Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.5x. In a band that narrow, $37,800 is a genuinely representative number for Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers and the main variable left is where you live.

In cash terms the middle half of Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers runs $31,270 to $45,670 — $14,400 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $37,800.

Between $31,270 and $45,670 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $37,800. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $7,870; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $14,400.

From $37,800 it is $6,530 down to the bottom quarter and $7,870 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $15.03 at the bottom quarter, $18.17 at the midpoint, $21.95 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.