Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Tasks Include:
- Cover surfaces with dropcloths or masking tape and paper to protect surfaces during painting.
- Fill cracks, holes, or joints with caulk, putty, plaster, or other fillers, using caulking guns or putty knives.
- Apply primers or sealers to prepare new surfaces, such as bare wood or metal, for finish coats.
- Apply paint, stain, varnish, enamel, or other finishes to equipment, buildings, bridges, or other structures, using brushes, spray guns, or rollers.
- Calculate amounts of required materials and estimate costs, based on surface measurements or work orders.
- Read work orders or receive instructions from supervisors or homeowners to determine work requirements.
- Erect scaffolding or swing gates, or set up ladders, to work above ground level.
- Remove fixtures such as pictures, door knobs, lamps, or electric switch covers prior to painting.
- Wash and treat surfaces with oil, turpentine, mildew remover, or other preparations, and sand rough spots to ensure that finishes will adhere properly.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: +10.7%
National: +1.3%
Education
High School Diploma
Job Zone:
Two: Some Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Moderately High ($36,000 - $49,999)
Median Earnings:
National
$46,090.00
State
$43,350.00
Regional
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Description
Career Cluster: | Architecture & Construction |
Paint walls, equipment, buildings, bridges, and other structural surfaces, using brushes, rollers, and spray guns. May remove old paint to prepare surface prior to painting. May mix colors or oils to obtain desired color or consistency.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Education
Required Level of Education
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 52.29%
- Less than a High School Diploma = 30.11%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 7.64%
- Doctoral Degree = 5.72%
- Bachelor's Degree = 4.25%
Related Work Experience
- Over 10 years = 21.94%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 17.33%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 13.03%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 12.71%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 12.49%
- None = 9.64%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 8.40%
- Up to and including 1 month = 2.77%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 1.70%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Up to and including 1 month = 17.33%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 16.56%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 15.13%
- None = 14.06%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 10.91%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 9.20%
- Over 10 years = 9.17%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 7.65%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 24.40%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 21.68%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 21.56%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 13.03%
- Over 10 years = 8.40%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 7.68%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 1.79%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 1.21%
- None or short demonstration = 0.26%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Cover surfaces with dropcloths or masking tape and paper to protect surfaces during painting.
- Fill cracks, holes, or joints with caulk, putty, plaster, or other fillers, using caulking guns or putty knives.
- Apply primers or sealers to prepare new surfaces, such as bare wood or metal, for finish coats.
- Apply paint, stain, varnish, enamel, or other finishes to equipment, buildings, bridges, or other structures, using brushes, spray guns, or rollers.
- Calculate amounts of required materials and estimate costs, based on surface measurements or work orders.
- Read work orders or receive instructions from supervisors or homeowners to determine work requirements.
- Erect scaffolding or swing gates, or set up ladders, to work above ground level.
- Remove fixtures such as pictures, door knobs, lamps, or electric switch covers prior to painting.
- Wash and treat surfaces with oil, turpentine, mildew remover, or other preparations, and sand rough spots to ensure that finishes will adhere properly.
- Mix and match colors of paint, stain, or varnish with oil or thinning and drying additives to obtain desired colors and consistencies.
- Remove old finishes by stripping, sanding, wire brushing, burning, or using water or abrasive blasting.
- Select and purchase tools or finishes for surfaces to be covered, considering durability, ease of handling, methods of application, and customers' wishes.
- Smooth surfaces, using sandpaper, scrapers, brushes, steel wool, or sanding machines.
- Polish final coats to specified finishes.
- Use special finishing techniques such as sponging, ragging, layering, or faux finishing.
- Cut stencils and brush or spray lettering or decorations on surfaces.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Waterproof buildings, using waterproofers or caulking.
- Spray or brush hot plastics or pitch onto surfaces.
- Bake finishes on painted or enameled articles, using baking ovens.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Manlift or personnel lift (Aerial lifts)
- Air compressors
- Paint sprayers (Airless spray equipment)
- Blow torches
- Manlift or personnel lift (Bosun chairs)
- Articulating boom lift (Bucket trucks)
- Caulking guns
- Power chippers (Chippers)
- Power chippers (Chipping hammers)
- Hole saws (Circle cutters)
- Paint brushes (Combing tools)
- Paint sprayers (Conventional spray equipment)
- Desktop computers
- Power sanders (Disk sanders)
- Hatchets (Drywall axes)
- Hammers (Drywall hammers)
- Lifts (Drywall lifters)
- Saws (Drywall ripping tools)
- Putty knives (Drywall taping knives)
- Power grinders (Electric grinders)
- Power sanders (Electric paint removers)
- Ladders (Extension ladders)
- Files
- Trowels (Float trowels)
- Floor scrapers
- Forklifts
- Razor knives (Glass scrapers)
- Razor knives (Glaziers' knives)
- Glue guns
- Saw blades (Grout removal tools)
- Hammers
- Heat guns
- Paint sprayers (High velocity low pressure HVLP spraying equipment)
- Hoists
- Hand sprayers (Hopper guns)
- Manlift or personnel lift (Hydraulic lifts)
- Pressure or steam cleaners (Hydroblasters)
- Ladders
- Laser printers
- Laser measuring systems (Line lasers)
- Scaffolding (Mobile scaffolds)
- Notebook computers
- Paint strainers (Paint brush cleaner spinners)
- Paint brushes
- Paint tester (Paint lead testing kits)
- Paint rollers
- Paint mixers (Paint shakers)
- Paint strainers
- Power sanders (Paint stripping equipment)
- Edging tools (Painting edgers)
- Putty knives (Patching knives)
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
- Platform lift (Platforms)
- Hand sprayers (Pneumatic spray texture guns)
- Paint sprayers (Power brushes)
- Power drills
- Paint mixers (Power mixers)
- Paint rollers (Power rollers)
- Power sanders
- Power saws
- Pressure or steam cleaners (Pressure washers)
- Cold chisels (Putty chisels)
- Putty knives
- Respirators
- Blocks or pulleys (Riggings)
- Pneumatic sanding machines (Sandblasters)
- Saws
- Scaffolding
- Scribers (Scoring tools)
- Screwdrivers
- Wallpaper roller (Seam rollers)
- Slings
- Putty knives (Spackling knives)
- Paint sprayers (Spray guns)
- Hand sprayers (Spray texture guns)
- Pressure or steam cleaners (Steam cleaning equipment)
- Stencils or lettering aids (Stencils)
- Ladders (Stilts)
- Paint sprayers (Striping machines)
- Masking equipment (Striping tools)
- Paint brushes (Stripper brushes)
- Hand sprayers (Stucco patching guns)
- Manlift or personnel lift (Swing stages)
- Temperature humidity testers (Temperature gauges)
- Trowels (Texturing trowels)
- Paint mixers (Tinting machines)
- Edging tools (Trim guides)
- Trowels
- Utility knives
- Pressure or steam cleaners (Wallpaper steamers)
- Wire brushes
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- Evergreen Technology Total Faux
- Customer relationship management CRM software
- Sage ACT!
- Data base user interface and query software
- Insight Direct ServiceCEO
- Project management software
- EST Estimating software
- Evergreen Technology Eagle Bid Estimating
- On Center Quick Bid
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal Architect
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Spreadsheet software
- Word processing software
- Contractor City Contractor Forms Pack
- Word processing software
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Additional Resources
For general information about the work of painters and paperhangers, contact:
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades
1750 New York Ave. NW.
Washington, DC 20006
For information on training programs, contact:
Associated Builders and Contractors
1300 N. 17th St.
Arlington, VA 22209
http://www.abc.org
Painting and Decorating Contractors of America
3913 Old Lee Highway
Suite 33B
Fairfax, VA 22030
The data sources for the information displayed here include: Virginia Career VIEW Research. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
72.25 | Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
68.25 | Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
64.75 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
63.00 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
61.00 | Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. |
59.50 | Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
54.25 | Administrative | Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology. |
51.25 | Transportation | Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Skills
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
50.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
50.00 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
50.00 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
50.00 | Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
62.50 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
59.50 | Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
56.25 | Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
56.25 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
56.25 | Gross Body Equilibrium | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. |
56.25 | Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
53.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
53.00 | Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
50.00 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
50.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
50.00 | Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
50.00 | Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. |
50.00 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
50.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
50.00 | Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
50.00 | Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. |
50.00 | Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. |
50.00 | Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
73.50 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
73.25 | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials | Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
71.00 | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others | Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
69.25 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
68.25 | Performing General Physical Activities | Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
64.50 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
62.50 | Handling and Moving Objects | Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
62.50 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
62.25 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
62.00 | Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment | Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. |
61.75 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
61.50 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
60.50 | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards | Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
60.25 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
59.25 | Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates | Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. |
58.00 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
56.00 | Developing and Building Teams | Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
55.75 | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others | Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
55.75 | Assisting and Caring for Others | Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. |
55.25 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
55.00 | Coaching and Developing Others | Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
54.75 | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public | Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
53.50 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
53.25 | Developing Objectives and Strategies | Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
53.25 | Scheduling Work and Activities | Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
53.25 | Communicating with People Outside the Organization | Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
52.75 | Training and Teaching Others | Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
50.75 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
50.00 | Documenting/Recording Information | Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
49.75 | Controlling Machines and Processes | Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
85.50 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
82.50 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
81.75 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
79.75 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
77.50 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
74.00 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
73.25 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
71.75 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
71.25 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
71.00 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
69.50 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
68.50 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
68.00 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
66.25 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
63.75 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
57.25 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
50.00 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
96.80 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
95.80 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
93.00 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
88.40 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
86.80 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
84.20 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
81.60 | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body | How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? |
78.00 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
78.00 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
77.20 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
77.00 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
76.20 | Spend Time Climbing Ladders, Scaffolds, or Poles | How much does this job require climbing ladders, scaffolds, or poles? |
75.80 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
74.80 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
74.80 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
73.00 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
72.60 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
71.00 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
70.20 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
70.20 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
70.00 | Exposed to High Places | How often does this job require exposure to high places? |
69.40 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
69.00 | Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling | How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling? |
68.80 | Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection | How much does this job require wearing specialized protective or safety equipment such as breathing apparatus, safety harness, full protection suits, or radiation protection? |
67.60 | Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting | How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions? |
67.60 | Outdoors, Exposed to Weather | How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions? |
67.00 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
65.40 | Spend Time Walking and Running | How much does this job require walking and running? |
63.20 | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? |
62.60 | Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions | How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions? |
62.00 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
60.60 | Very Hot or Cold Temperatures | How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures? |
54.60 | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? |
53.20 | Exposed to Hazardous Conditions | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions? |
53.20 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
52.80 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
51.60 | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment | How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) |
50.40 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, tellers, and dental laboratory technicians.
- Education
- These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $32,510.00 | $46,090.00 | $57,300.00 |
Virginia | $35,050.00 | $43,350.00 | $47,900.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | $43,012.25 | $51,555.61 | $63,165.43 |
Bay Consortium | $36,908.24 | $46,942.47 | $57,651.36 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $32,940.83 | $39,171.93 | $49,642.16 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $31,835.33 | $38,960.13 | $44,373.98 |
Crater Area | $34,122.79 | $39,106.84 | $49,896.32 |
Greater Peninsula | $36,014.54 | $40,403.48 | $46,361.82 |
Hampton Roads | $36,710.90 | $45,356.54 | $51,020.42 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $31,965.51 | $39,157.47 | $43,163.10 |
Northern Virginia | $42,613.45 | $49,086.31 | $62,959.83 |
Piedmont Workforce | $35,817.20 | $45,785.31 | $53,190.10 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $30,145.05 | $37,328.74 | $42,147.48 |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | $30,963.33 | $38,216.24 | $42,532.86 |
Western Virginia | $32,745.56 | $38,749.36 | $43,553.64 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Painters, Construction and Maintenance
Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 365,300 | 370,100 | +1.3% |
Virginia | 8,862 | 9,811 | +10.7% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | 104 | 117 | +12.5% |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | 1,828 | 2,066 | +13.0% |
Central VA/Region2000 | 172 | 181 | +5.2% |
Crater Area | 187 | 190 | +1.6% |
Greater Peninsula | 608 | 658 | +8.2% |
Hampton Roads | 1,625 | 1,717 | +5.7% |
New River/Mt. Rogers | 119 | 126 | +5.9% |
Northern Virginia | 2,660 | 3,079 | +15.8% |
Piedmont Workforce | 516 | 571 | +10.7% |
Shenandoah Valley | 222 | 244 | +9.9% |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | 382 | 401 | +5.0% |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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