Furniture Finishers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Furniture Finishers offer sit among all 14,230 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 14,230 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. Florida is the largest employer at 1,300 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.6% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Indiana, whose location quotient of 4.27 says this work is 4.27 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $59,820, which is 1.9 times the $31,200 at the 10th, a difference of $28,620 annually. Because the mean wage ($44,310) sits above the median ($42,530), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 42 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Massachusetts at $62,590; the jobs leader is Florida:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Furniture Finishers stands number 622 by employment and number 668 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Production Occupations, the group median wage is $46,020 across 105 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 8% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 21 of the 42 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $42,530, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 660 jobs, 4.6% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $46,680 a year, against $51,150 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $42,530 a year is $3,544 a month gross, $1,636 every two weeks, $818 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($36,770) to the 75th ($49,020) is worth $12,250 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,544 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $46,783 would sit between the median ($42,530) and the 75th percentile ($49,020), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $36,770, is $5,760 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Production Occupations

Sibling occupations in Production Occupations: Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers, Bakers, Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers, Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators, Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, Food Batchmakers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.