Model Makers, Wood Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Model Makers, Wood worker at that point in the distribution, so $80,380 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

With 360 jobs nationally, Model Makers, Wood make up 0.00% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 70 of those jobs, the top three states hold 27.8%, and the deepest concentration sits in Michigan (location quotient 3.08, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $71,140 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($95,850) is 3.9 times the 10th percentile ($24,710), a gap of $71,140 a year. The mean of $59,780 sitting above the median of $51,850 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Michigan posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $88,940, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Model Makers, Wood stands number 824 by employment and number 498 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 13% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.0% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 1 of the 2 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $51,850, 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

The May 2024 survey could not support metropolitan estimates for Model Makers, Wood at its reliability standards, so none are printed. Use the state medians above for local pricing, and treat any finer-grained figure from another source as an estimate with an agenda.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $51,850 works out to $4,321 a month before taxes, $1,994 per biweekly paycheck, and $997 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($40,420) to the 75th ($80,380) is worth $39,960 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 $57,035 would sit between the median ($51,850) and the 75th percentile ($80,380), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $40,420, is $11,430 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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