Patternmakers, Wood 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 Patternmakers, Wood ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $45,450. 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

BLS counted 180 Patternmakers, Wood jobs in May 2024, which is 0.00% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, where the location quotient is 7.07, meaning the occupation holds 7.07 times its national share of local jobs. Pennsylvania employs the most people outright, 50 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 27.8% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $83,330, which is 2.0 times the $40,730 at the 10th, a difference of $42,600 annually. Because the mean wage ($57,920) sits above the median ($52,520), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Patternmakers, Wood runs from the $54,170 median in Pennsylvania down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Pennsylvania (50 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Patternmakers, Wood stands number 826 by employment and number 484 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 14% 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 $52,520, 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

Metro estimates for Patternmakers, Wood do not exist in the May 2024 OEWS release, so this page does not invent them. Where a salary site shows a city wage for this occupation, it is modeling from other data; the published geography here stops at the state table.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $52,520 a year is $4,377 a month gross, $2,020 every two weeks, $1,010 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($45,450) to the 75th ($77,410) is worth $31,960 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 $4,377 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 $57,772 would sit between the median ($52,520) and the 75th percentile ($77,410), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $45,450, is $7,070 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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