Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers · SOC 51-9123

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for painting, coating, and decorating workers. 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 39 metro areas

Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$72,610	180	0.0
2	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$60,190	Not published	Not published
3	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$59,170	70	0.0
4	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$57,360	70	0.0
5	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$57,000	70	0.0
6	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$53,290	60	0.0
7	Kansas City, MO-KS	$50,160	50	0.0
8	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$49,750	60	0.1
9	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	$49,610	60	0.4
10	St. Louis, MO-IL	$49,440	50	0.0
11	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$48,850	30	0.0
12	Richmond, VA	$48,570	50	0.1
13	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$48,470	40	0.0
14	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$47,790	50	0.0
15	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$47,360	40	0.1
16	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$47,310	80	0.0
17	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$46,810	70	0.1
18	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$46,630	90	0.0
19	Boise City, ID	$45,060	Not published	Not published
20	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$43,780	Not published	Not published
21	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$42,330	60	0.0
22	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$42,110	100	0.1
23	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$41,680	70	0.0
24	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$41,600	Not published	Not published
25	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$40,240	40	0.0

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers 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.