Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $33,580. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

With 192,480 jobs nationally, Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers make up 0.12% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 24,660 of those jobs, the top three states hold 27.8%, and the deepest concentration sits in Idaho (location quotient 1.66, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $33,580 at the 25th percentile, $37,350 at the middle, $44,750 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $23,750, a ratio of 1.8 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers runs from the $45,760 median in Washington down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (24,660 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers stands number 166 by employment and number 752 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations, the group median wage is $66,220 across 36 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 44% less than its group median, and it supplies 9.7% of the group's 1,989,300 jobs. In 22 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,350, 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 9,040 jobs, 4.7% 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, New Orleans-Metairie, LA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $35,540 a year, against $55,580 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. 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

The median annual wage of $37,350 works out to $3,112 a month before taxes, $1,437 per biweekly paycheck, and $718 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($33,580) to the 75th ($44,750) is worth $11,170 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $41,085 would sit between the median ($37,350) and the 75th percentile ($44,750), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $33,580, is $3,770 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Athletes and Sports Competitors, Sound Engineering Technicians, Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other, Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners, Music Directors and Composers, Set and Exhibit Designers. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.