Furniture Finishers · SOC 51-7021

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Furniture Finisherss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for furniture finishers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 64 metro areas

Furniture Finishers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$61,940	120	0.2
2	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$59,830	40	0.1
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$58,340	90	0.0
4	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$56,300	160	0.1
5	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$51,070	160	0.1
6	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$50,760	230	0.1
7	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$50,020	870	0.1
8	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$49,850	50	0.0
9	Reading, PA	$49,760	70	0.4
10	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$49,660	90	0.0
11	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$49,320	80	0.0
12	Cleveland, OH	$49,120	50	0.0
13	St. Cloud, MN	$48,140	40	0.4
14	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	$48,030	310	2.4
15	Albuquerque, NM	$48,010	40	0.1
16	St. Louis, MO-IL	$48,010	80	0.1
17	Fort Wayne, IN	$48,000	100	0.4
18	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$47,660	560	0.1
19	Lancaster, PA	$47,600	100	0.4
20	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$47,600	30	0.1
21	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$47,590	40	0.1
22	Kansas City, MO-KS	$47,370	90	0.1
23	Naples-Marco Island, FL	$47,300	60	0.3
24	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$46,900	30	0.0
25	Pittsburgh, PA	$46,870	60	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Furniture Finishers overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.