Painting workers

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Painting workers are most often employed by the Automotive repair & maintenance industry. The average yearly wage for Painting workers was $43,665 in 2020.

The locations that employ the most Painting workers are Elkhart & Goshen Cities PUMA, IN, Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange & Steuben Counties PUMA, IN, and East Central Wisconsin PUMA, WI. The locations with a relatively high concentration of Painting workers are Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange & Steuben Counties PUMA, IN, Talladega, Cherokee, Randolph, Cleburne & Clay Counties PUMA, AL, and Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley, Switzerland & Ohio Counties PUMA, IN.

Production Occupations Production, Transportation, & Material Moving Occupations

Employment and salary information for the Painting workers workforce. Painting workers workforce in 2020 was 138,367 people, of which 12% were women and 88% were men. Painting workers are paid most in Wood, Portage, Juneau & Adams Counties PUMA, WI but are relatively concentrated in Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange & Steuben Counties PUMA, IN.

Employment Over Time

Metric

Grouping

121,752

Male Workforce

± 8.56k

16,615

Female Workforce

± 3.16k

The Painting workers workforce in 2020 was 138,367 people (12% women and 88% men). This implies an average annual growth of 7.14% between 2014 (129,144) and 2020 (138,367).

Employment by Location

Level

Metric

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by average wage for Painting workers.

During 2020, the states that concentrated the best average annual wage were Hawaii ($70,878), Alaska ($67,002), and Maryland ($60,997).

Yearly Wage Ranking

$43,665

AVERAGE WAGE

#323 in the ranking (2020)

$55,954

NATIONAL AVERAGE WAGE

For all occupations across the US

In 2020, Painting workers earned an average of $43,665, $12,289 less than the average national salary of $55,954

The graph shows the ranking of Painting workers in relation to all Detailed Occupation in 2020.

Wage Distribution

Gender

0.322

WAGE GINI

In 2020, Painting workers had a wage GINI coefficient of 0.322, which is lower than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly for Painting workers (shown in red) than for the overall labor force (shown in gray).

The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Painting workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Industry

Information on the industries that employ Painting workers and on wages for those in the field. Automotive repair & maintenance is the industry that employs the most Painting workers, both by share and by number, though the highest paid industry for Painting workers, by average wage, is Pulp, paper, & paperboard mills ($82,587).

Occupations by Industries

Metric

Value

138k

2020 Workforce

± 9,128

−1.77%

1 YEAR GROWTH

± 9.46%

This graphic shows the share of Painting workers employed by various industries. Automotive repair & maintenance employs the largest share of Painting workers at 65.7%, followed by Motor vehicles & motor vehicle equipment manufacturing with 22.2% and Furniture & related product manufacturing with 12.2%.

Diversity

Demographic information on Painting workers in the US. The workforce of Painting workers in 2020 was 138,367 people, with 12% woman, and 88% men. The average age of male Painting workers in the workforce is 40.8 and of female Painting workers is 40.5, and the most common race/ethnicity for Painting workers is White.

Gender and Age

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The workforce of Painting workers in 2020 was 138,367 people, with 12% woman, and 88% men.

The age ranges that concentrated the largest workforce were 30 to 34 years (17,614 people), 40 to 44 years (16,627 people), and 35 to 39 years (16,336 people). Among them they concentrated 36.6% of the total workforce.

Ethnicity

Gender

In 2020, 29.1% of Painting workers workers were Hispanic and 70.9% non-Hispanic.

The treemap shows the distribution of Hispanic workers according to their origin, highlighting Mexican (85.9%), Salvadoran (7.39)%, and Puerto Rican (6.67)%

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Races

In 2020, 70.8% of the Painting workers workforce were White, of which 11.9% were women and 88.1% men. Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black (11.2%) and Other (9.35%).

Education & Skills

Data on higher education choices for Painting workers from The Department of Education and Census Bureau. The most common major for Painting workers is Visual & Performing Arts but the most specialized major according to RCA in 2020 were Mechanical Technologies.

Majors

ACS PUMS data only shows the major for bachelor's degrees. However, we can filter the data based on highest degree obtained.

Type of Majors

Degree

The most common majors achieved by Painting workers in 2020 (counting all academic degrees) were Visual & Performing Arts (877 people), Business (820 people), and Engineering (677 people).

You can review this information for different academic grades by modifying the option selected in the selector above.

Education Levels

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The main educational levels achieved by the Painting workers workers were High School or Equivalent (67,883 people), Some college (29,024 people), and Secondary Education (20,613 people).

The graphic shows the Painting workers workforce by gender and educational level.

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